Juneau police have cleared a downtown encampment on Alaska Mental Health Trust land. The Juneau Assembly’s task force is mulling strategies for dealing with the community’s homelessness crisis.
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Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority moves to clear Juneau homeless camp
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority wants a homeless camp on one of its downtown properties cleared by September 5. The city is working with social care agencies to find alternatives for the dozen people camped there.
Juneau city manager: ‘People genuinely don’t have somewhere to go’
A downtown tent village has sprang up near the former subport in recent weeks. The city of Juneau won’t try to close down the camp without a formal trespassing complaint from its owner, the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.
Rep. Ortiz introduces state version of Mental Health land trade
While waiting for federal legislation to expedite a land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and Alaska Mental Health Trust, state officials are working on a companion bill in the Alaska Legislature.
Bill would speed Tongass-Mental Health Trust land trade
A bill before Congress would speed a timberland trade between the federal government and the Alaska Mental Health Trust. It’s part of a larger legislative effort to increase logging in the Tongass National Forest.