City officials say it would help address Juneau’s current lack of shelter space and housing units, and would reduce the number of unhoused people camping during the summer months.
Housing
Juneau Assembly OKs more than $2M toward affordable housing projects
The projects approved Monday are expected to create more than 40 housing units, including both single-family homes and apartment complexes located throughout the borough.
Juneau Assembly to vote on $2.3M worth of affordable housing funding
The projects proposed this year would help create more than 40 units of housing, comprising both single-family homes and apartment complexes, all across the borough.
Why Juneau’s warming shelter moved multiple times during the avalanche advisory
Staff at the city’s emergency warming shelter for unhoused residents relocated operations three times in two days.
Residents at a mobile home park in Juneau go weeks without adequate water pressure
Amid record-breaking snowfalls and unusually low temperatures, some residents at Thunder Mountain Mobile Park have been without enough water to take a shower for more than two weeks.
Western Alaska evacuees in Anchorage slowly moving to temporary housing
The transition is complicated by financial and logistical hurdles, according to state officials.