The city aims to open the cold weather shelter on Friday at its warehouse in Thane.
Housing
Hooper Bay families displaced by Merbok could lose housing this month
Rental housing in Hooper Bay is severely limited.
Designers share proposals for Telephone Hill redevelopment, with one including existing homes
About 50 people attended to review potential plans, and many of them called for the city to consider a “no build” option instead of adding new units.
Juneau’s cold weather shelter likely will be in a Thane warehouse this winter
Resurrection Lutheran Church, which ran the shelter for the last two years, narrowly voted on Sunday to run the shelter again this year. But by then, the city had started making plans with St. Vincent de Paul.
A tense afternoon of vehicle towing and a microcosm of frustration over homelessness in Anchorage
The people living in the vehicles said they were frustrated and angry that their dwellings were being carted off to languish in impound lots.
Anchorage joins long list of cities petitioning US Supreme Court to hear key homelessness case
A Ninth Circuit precedent set in 2018 is still the law in Alaska and eight other western states: It is unconstitutional to punish homeless people for camping in public spaces when they have nowhere else to go.
Experts gather in Sitka to talk Southeast housing solutions
Although Alaska’s population in most communities has declined slightly, housing demand has gone up about 9% since 2016.
Can this robot print a whole house? Nome is going to find out
Researchers estimated that the shell of a concrete home would cost about one-fourth what a traditional one would.
Does Alaska have an affordable housing crisis?
Across Alaska, it’s a challenge to find affordable housing. Homebuilding and vacancy rates are down, while rent, mortgage rates and home prices are up.
Alaska rents are up 7%, the biggest increase in more than a decade
Vacancy rates went up slightly over the year but are still historically low.