City dwellers fed up with tent cities alongside Anchorage's trail system and greenbelts say the campers are acting more like homesteaders than people who are homeless – claiming space as their own, running people off, attracting crime, and creating unsightly, unsanitary messes. A renewed push is underway, to return enjoyment of the city's public spaces, to the public. Homelessness in Anchorage is not a new issue. For years it's been a nomadic phenomenon. Bust up a camp in one part of town, a new one is destined to turn up somewhere else. In recent years, the city has worked to get its most vulnerable residents – drug addicts, the disabled, the mentally ill – off the streets and into housing.