Where is the humanity in so many of these comments. There are as many reasons these people are homeless as there are people. Many have adopted the "lifestyle", some are mentally ill, some displaced by 40% unemployment in villages and no game or fuel to get to it......some are victims of abuse...and some just a personal disaster away and it happened. Most of the commentators here are cruel and likely a few pay checks away from a similar path to homelessness. Solutions can only happen one person at a time....lift a little and see the created human being in each soul...there will be much more of this as the oil impact sets in and the national problems expand...I travel all over the world and the worst homelessness I have seen is here compared to any European city. Just back from Moscow and St. Petersburg Russia and I see more homeless on one block of Anchorage than in these two major cities combined...London, Amsterdam, Munich, Brussels the same....Compassion is needed not anger and scorn