The cost to rent a home or apartment has gone up in Alaska during the pandemic, according to state economists.
Housing
Local officials look for housing solutions while seasonal workers do the Skagway shuffle
During busy cruise ship summers, seasonal employees who show up to work in Skagway often have no place to live.
Amid shelter debate, these Anchorage campers say they’re staying outside
During the first week of August, the city came to the camp — which it uses as a snow dump in the winter — and posted white paper signs on the trees. The signs gave the legally required notice to dozens of campers that they must leave within 10 days.
Sitka Assembly removes landslide section from city code
After the deadly landslides in 2015 killed three people, the assembly commissioned landslide mapping to assess risk throughout Sitka and adopted a new section of city code that restricted development in areas with “moderate” or “high” landslide risk.
Federal eviction moratorium extended for nearly all of Alaska
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a two-month extension on the federal eviction moratorium, which had expired at the end of July.
Visitors are back in Talkeetna, but it’s not business as usual
Tourists are back in Talkeetna, but disruptions to the labor and housing markets have left businesses scrambling to fill positions.
Glory Hall shelter moves out of downtown Juneau
By the end of the week, Juneau’s downtown emergency shelter and soup kitchen plans to be serving all of its patrons at its new facility.
Haines debates banning yurts as permanent structures
Haines’ planning committee has recommended prohibiting yurts as permanent structures following complaints that they could drag down property values.
Federal eviction moratorium extended through July
he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced the eviction moratorium last September, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through homeless shelters and other congregate living. The agency has extended the order several times and said this extension will be the last.
Girdwood housing market reaches crisis level, forcing locals out
Tax appraisals show the average value of a home grew five times as fast in Girdwood as in the rest of Anchorage over the past year, and the market rate is likely much higher.