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.
Housing
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.