Alaska mayor says he wants to buy homeless one-way ticket to warmer US cities
Anchorage's mayor wants to buy homeless residents plane tickets to warmer cities and critics are calling the plan a 'distraction not a solution'.
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Anchorage's mayor wants to buy homeless residents plane tickets to warmer cities and critics are calling the plan a 'distraction not a solution'.
Anchorage's mayor wants to buy homeless residents plane tickets to warmer cities and critics are calling the plan a 'distraction not a solution'.
Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson's new proposal would pay for plane tickets to ship homeless people to warmer climates. “My job is to make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets," he said.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave one man a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
Last year, eight people - a record for the city - tragically lost their lives from exposure. The closure of a shelter city this year is expected to exacerbate the crisis as temperatures drop.