Rivers, bad idea because if Anchorage create a homeless camp, then Anchorage will be responsible for all the things that goes on in that homeless camp. If this city officially create a homeless camp, it would be a bottomless pit of responsibility and destruction of any sort of financial stability this city ever hope to have. That is why, most cities never adopt such an approach. Cost over run will bankrupt any city. Even places like Honolulu who got homeless problems that utterly dwarf Anchorage's, wasn't that stupid to create a homeless camp.....cost and responsibility simply will be too high. In fact, many cities are now taking the opposite tack, realizing the compassion, care and support for the homeless, are actually enabling and encouraging the homeless. We should also understand that many of the homeless who are mentally ill....often choose NOT to take their medication during the period when they are totally lucid, able and high functioning. Just like Mr.Ensley in this article.