I can't help but wonder if the plight of many homeless, especially those with clinically defined mental health issues, might be linked to rich folks siphoning off public money for their own gain?  Money, that had been used to assist and provide treatment and health care to those in need? Most certainly some of our elected representatives, perhaps too many here in Alaska recently, have assisted the "1%" with personal wealth growth by throttling programs to assist the public, effectively disparaging the poor and reducing funding to care for the down trodden, sick and poor.  I don't see any real information about cause in this article other than a rather obvious attempt by the writer, who tries to ignore, or rationalize, why things are the way they are here in ANC.  Blaming everything on drug use of one sort or another and some sort of unknowable unknown is a rather shameful political analysis and the writer ignores too many sources who could offer real insights, Devin Kelly wake up.