Housing

Residents in a homeless camp off Egan Drive have been given 14 days to vacate the property. The area owned by the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is slated for sale and redevelopment.

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority wants a homeless camp on one of its downtown properties cleared by September 5. The city is working with social care agencies to find alternatives for the dozen people camped there.

More than 100 firefighters responded to the fire, which spread to three floors of the 36-story Honolulu apartment building. The building did not have a sprinkler system.

The Great Recession affected Ketchikan just like it did the rest of the country. But the city bounced back, and so did the housing market.

The 32-unit Housing First apartments built to house Juneau’s most vulnerable homeless residents won’t open until mid-September. The $8.2 million project is modeled after similar housing projects in Anchorage, Fairbanks and other parts of the country.

The proposal for a 130-unit high-rise apartment building to be built over a downtown city parking lot has alarmed some community members. But city officials say there is no final plan and closure of the deal is still months away.