At last Tuesday's Anchorage Assembly meeting, a Hatcher Pass man claimed Anchorage's homelessness problem is being driven by Alaska Native people, and the city should 'send them home.'
Anchorage Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance and vice-chair Chris Constant at an Assembly meeting on June 7, 2022.
Last Tuesday, a man named David Lazer testified on an ordinance that would have designated the former Golden Lion hotel as a temporary emergency shelter. Lazer said he’d traveled from Hatcher Pass — well beyond the municipality’s boundaries — and claimed the city’s homelessness problem is being driven by Alaska Native people.
His testimony also included racist, derogatory comments about Alaska Natives and was met with a swift rebuke from East Anchorage Assembly member Forrest Dunbar. Dunbar also told Lazer that, in his experience surveying homeless residents, most of them say they are from Anchorage. Dunbar stopped addressing Lazer after Eagle River Assembly member Jamie Allard pointed out that Assembly members are only supposed to ask questions during public testimony, not engage in debate.
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