Housing Alaskans: A Public-Private Partnership is Alaska's first housing trust. Its board believes it could be a game-changer in Alaska's growing housing crisis for low and middle-income families.
In RurAL CAP’s self-help housing projects, families work together in groups of nine to build their own homes. They must provide 65 percent of the labor and be eligible for low-interest loans to cover the costs.
Simmons, who recently retired as head of Providence Alaska Medical Center, says he saw how the lack of housing in Kodiak caused hospital staffing to drop to critical levels. HAPPP’s funding came just in time to help RurAL CAP finish a self-help housing project for nine families in Soldotna, which saw the pandemic drive up costs with delays and price hikes for building materials.
“One home twisted all the way around and drifted away,” Tuluk said, “but then landed quite a bit away from its usual space.”Last Thanksgiving, Tuluk and her family moved into their home in Soldotna, a home they had built together with help from the eight other families in their project. Simmons says HAPPP can help to bring down these costs by changing government policies, like current state law that requires homegrown timber to be sent out of state for grading, which then has to be shipped back to Alaska. A billA breakdown of Alaska housing units by their years of construction
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