Members of the Anchorage Assembly are calling for the vice chair of a municipal advisory commission to resign after he brought up stereotypes about who experiences homelessness.
Anchorage Assembly member Felix Rivera highlighted Crawford’s comments during“This statement has no place in our discourse around homelessness,” Rivera said. “For my part, I am sick, literally, and tired of how the Alaska Native community is treated as a punching bag on this topic.”
“Mayor Bronson disagrees with Mr. Crawford’s statement,” mayor’s spokesperson Corey Allen Young said in an email on Thursday. “Mental illness crosses all boundaries of race, ethnicities and economic status. The mayor continues to fight for solutions that will help our city’s most vulnerable get access to treatment, services, and permanent housing.”Crawford, reached Thursday evening, said he has no intention of resigning. He said he did not intend to bring up Alaska Natives.
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