Anchorage homeless face cold and bears. A plan to offer one-way airfare out reveals a bigger crisis

[Associated Press] Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.

Anchorage homeless face cold and bears. A plan to offer one-way airfare out reveals a bigger crisis. 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 Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope.