Survey IDs challenges facing homeless

[Arctic Dave]

The youngest of the 355 homeless people surveyed this week in Anchorage are 19. The oldest: 77. Almost one in four are veterans. Nearly half of those identified as the most at risk are Alaska Native. Eighteen reported having cancer.


The 355 respondents reported a total of 540 emergency room visits in the past three months. The top five ER users had more than 100 visits combined.

More than four in five said they had been jailed at some point in their lives. Forty percent said they had been the target of violence since becoming homeless.

Dozens of volunteers spread out through Anchorage this week in a first-of-its-kind survey here to identify the city's homeless and the most vulnerable among them. They announced the hard numbers Friday.



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/09/16/2072638/abuse-jail-illness-challenge-anchorages.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1YGAmGUcu

Interesting article, I would sugest reading it's entirety then look at the comments. Sad. It would appear we have a few new trolls at the ADN website.

[Arctic Dave]

1. Crickets....

The name of this website misleads one to believe someone would find this informative. I am proved wrong.

[hunter]

3. You have to wait a little longer before you claim "crickets."

The right wing news trolls are atrocious on any public site like adn. The nice thing about DU is that they get tombstoned pretty quick.

I don't consider the U.S.A. a civilized nation. For one thing, we have homeless people.

I can't imagine being homeless in Anchorage. It's plenty cold and wet enough in California during the winter to make being homeless miserable.

[Arctic Dave]

4. I could only imagine how bad is being homeless here.

We have had a rash of deaths the last year and a half of homeless people. Sad. Really disgusting what people post online when it happens.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Thank you for sharing this. The issues of poverty and homelessness are

not given enough attention. Not even here, as you pointed out. (Not surprised about the trolls. There are always trolls. x()