Homeless camps drive me crazy, too. I walk these trails every day and I've seen all levels of camps and people in them. I watched two teenagers go into a tent camp yesterday. As they walked in, they gave a whistle 'im here' and someone responded back. 

At some point you have to realize the rent crises in Anchorage. Availability is very low and quality of living gets poorer as buildings age. Weidner charges 800-900+ for one bedrooms and studios. 15/hr job gets you one paycheck that barely covers rent, but not utilities, and the other the insane cost if food being shipped here when we could bloody grow and raise our own. 15/hr hardly qualifies you. You get kicked out of your apartment if your 7 days late on rent. Bam homeless, you'll need 2000 bucks to get in an apt. 

Oh wait that anchor that helps those 15/hr get into apt, get or fix to keep job or get better job, clean our selves up every year in a pretty unforgiving economy, is gone. 1000 is great but that benefits of 2000 is 3 fold