Thraine Katchatag laughed when asked whether he would take a plane ticket to California. “I will never leave Alaska,” he said. “This is my state.” Katchatag, 67, is Native Alaskan — Athabaskan and Iñupiat.
In a rural California town, there is little help for the unhoused, who are endangered by extreme heat.
A man gets a free lunch from a truck run by Beans Cafe, a local soup kitchen, at a pop-up event providing services for unhoused people. The event was organized by the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. This summer has been rainy — leading to a lot of foot injuries for unhoused people who can’t keep dry — and all of the shelters in Anchorage have been running at capacity, said Jessica Parks, chief operating officer for the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness.
Last year, the Salvation Army offered tickets out of Anchorage to a few homeless people who could prove they had family or friends to stay with elsewhere.
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