The money comes from the city’s affordable housing fund.
Housing
New condos built with Juneau Affordable Housing Fund loan are being sold at market rate
The Juneau Assembly agreed to loan the developer money if they included five affordable units. Then, they dropped the requirement.
Visitors to Juneau’s emergency cold weather shelter climb as temperatures drop
The Point-in-Time count, part of a nationwide effort to count the number of people experiencing homelessness and connect them to services, takes place on Tuesday.
Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all US renters, study finds
U.S. homelessness rates hit a record high last year, which housing experts link squarely to a severe housing shortage that has helped drive up prices.
A developer wants to breathe new life into Juneau’s historic, long-vacant Bergmann Hotel
Today, the three-story, 46-room hotel’s windows are boarded up, and the inside is largely gutted. But when the Bergmann opened in 1913, it was considered “the epitome of style and class.”
As the permafrost melts, the houses in Nunapitchuk are breaking down
Some houses in Nunapitchuk sit on their own little hills as the soil erodes around them. Whole neighborhoods have sunk as seeping sewage mixes with the melting tundra.