The Municipality of Anchorage is moving to clear dozens of homeless campers out of a Midtown park ahead of a three-day music festival set to take place there in June.
Annie Heinrich, who has been homeless since November, said she has stayed in Cuddy Park for the last couple weeks. She said it seems to her that officials just want shuffle homeless people out of sight. “They just keep moving us. And then we end up putting up camps somewhere else. And then they want to move us again,” she said on May 25, 2023.
The area set to be off-limits to campers extends from the Loussac Library to Cuddy Park and the former site of the proposed National Archives building at 40th Avenue and Denali Street, which is where some of the most extensive encampments are rooted. The far western edge of the property toward A Street and a U.S. Postal Service building is speckled with about two dozen small tents scattered among stands of trees.
“Martin v. Boise is complicated and it’s been misunderstood. It’s not a flat prohibition on the municipality’s ability to abate when there is no shelter space, but it’s also unclear what some of the nuances are there.
“When doing any large event in a city that with homelessness, you must protect both the patrons and the unhoused. We were told we are liable for anything that happens in the park,” Fleming wrote in a statement posted online. “We knew thousands of people were coming to the park. We weighed the circumstances and did not want any unhoused residents to be bothered, or put any of their belongings in risk. We also wanted to protect our patrons.
“It’s very frustrating,” Bell said of the abatement notices telling people to move along. “We just got here, we don’t have anywhere else right now, so I’m not sure what we’re supposed to do.”
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