One part of the community tells a side of the story about housing in Anchorage, but the data is not clear that there is an actual housing “crisis” in Anchorage, as some call it. If there is a housing crisis, it has been around for a long time.
People in Eagle River told their Assemblyman Kevin Cross last week that Anchorage people are moving to the Mat-Su Valley and a lot of them are also working in the valley. They are not moving for the reasons Cross was saying, which is that there is not enough affordable housing in Chugiak, Eagle River, or the rest of Anchorage.
Opponents of the Kevin Cross “fix” for affordable housing argue that people are moving to find a better political climate; Anchorage has become more liberal in the past decade and the quality of life has deteriorated, and schools have become unsavory due to unwholesome agendas being forced on students and their families.
Cross, who develops real estate for a living, had called the community meeting to discuss his massive rezoning plan, a rewrite of the Title 21 ordinance. His changes, in an ordinance he advanced in the Anchorage Assembly after taking office. The goal is to build more apartments and condos across every part of the municipality, including Chugiak and Eagle River, and Girdwood, which have their own zoning carve-outs from Title 21.
The ordinance was given a poor reception, however. Residents worry about multi-story apartments being built next to their single-family homes, and are also concerned about the deterioration of their family neighborhoods.
A look at the data shows a population in decline in Anchorage, even as more housing has been built over the past few years.
According to the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the population of Anchorage was 298,908 people in 2015. Today, the population is down 288,000.
That’s a loss of about 11,000 people in Anchorage in less than a decade.
According to AFHC, in 2017, the municipality had 115,000 housing units, with 105,164 of them occupied, leaving an unoccupied inventory of nearly 10,000 units.
If those housing units were stable over the past six years, and with a falling population due to move-outs and low birth rates, there are still more than four housing units for every 10 people in the city, including adults and children.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, it threw a monkey wrench into many sectors of the economy, including apartment and home building. People in 2020 and 2021 approached housing in different ways — some rational ways, others not so much.
The supply chain dried up in 2020 and lumber costs skyrocketed, as did all other materials. Labor was in short supply starting in 2020 and continuing to today. These were impacts felt in every community across the country and Anchorage was no different.
At the same time, some people started working from home more, and their needs for space changed.
In November of 2020, the number of housing units approved by permits was about 415 in Anchorage, but vastly more homes were being built in the Mat-Su, which is lightly regulated.
Now, with mortgage interest rates near 7%, there’s yet another monkey wrench in the system.
According to AHFC, the rental vacancy rate was 5.7% in 2020 and slid to 4.3 in 2021. Typically, a 5-7% vacancy rate is considered a healthy balance, which puts Anchorage’s rental market a little on the tight side.
“As vacancy rates are going down, median rents have steadily gone up across the state from 2016 to 2022, with an average increase of 10.64%,” AHFC reported at the end of last year. The state reports that the average Anchorage rental is $1,400.
At the same time, none of this explains how the population loss of 11,000 in Anchorage would make the housing market tighter. The numbers from one agency to another don’t always tell the full story. After all, this is a city that is talking about the need to close a few schools due to declining enrollments; Anchorage has lost over 5,800 students since 2016.
What about the Anchorage street people? The unsheltered population in Anchorage, according to the Alaska Homeless Management Information System, is 3,198 individuals who are living in emergency shelters, couch surfing, or living on the streets or in tents in various greenbelt encampments.
Many of the unsheltered population suffer from behavioral issues that make them unsuitable candidates for a rental unit at any cost — they are drug addicts or people with serious mental illness. Some of them are repeat criminals looking for their next mark. A change in zoning to make more housing available at the bottom end of the market for this particular population is not going to be without controversy because they don’t make good neighbors.
For others in Anchorage, it’s actually far cheaper to live in Alaska’s largest city, where over 40% of the state’s population calls home, than in Seattle, the metropolis to the south. In fact, if you live on $53,000 a year in Anchorage, you’d need $60,000 a year in Seattle to maintain the same standard of living, according to Salary.com.
In fact, Anchorage doesn’t even make the top 10 list of cities with the biggest housing shortages according to multifamily.loans or Angi’s List.
Anchorage builders are frustrated, as they watch their contemporaries in the Mat-Su Valley build and sell hundreds of home.
Title 21 has, no doubt, raised the cost of building in Anchorage and made it more complicated. But Title 21 took years to write, and a quick overhaul may have unintended consequences.
There is a huge shortage of free housing for the unemployable, transient, section 8 and illegal people. This is why rents are so high. The social enablers pay for these peoples living and pleasure. Stop with this and you will see a change. But I won’t hold my breath
So you’re saying you want more homeless in Anchorage? Sounds to me like you’re jealous somebody’s getting meat off the bone and you want some. In my town, there are a lot of decent older homes but they have been purchased by doctors and lawyers and have set up private practice in them. This doesn’t make a shortage of housing. It is what it is. If you don’t want to pay the rent money don’t pay it. If the homeowner doesn’t rent the house and decided to lower the price, Great. Thats how the system works. Same way with food and gasoline.
My son and his family live in Anchorage. Lives in a run of the mill four plex in midtown. His rent is $1200 plus utilities.
His landlord is still paying the same mortgage. Only difference over the years is the City Council. Liberal spending is only good for higher tax appraisals, which only hurts middle and lower income families.
Whenever I think that some of this is getting squishy, I am reminded of this:
Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Article 44. Citizens of the USSR have the rights to housing.
This right is ensured by the development and upkeep of state and socially-owned housing; by assistance for co-operative and individual house building; by fair distribution, under public control, of the housing that becomes available through fulfilment of the programme of building well-appointed dwellings, and by low rents and low charges for utility services. Citizens of the USSR shall take good care of the housing allocated to them.
This feels a lot like where various current interest groups in our society want to go. I favor individual choice, individual responsibility and the free market. It is kinda tough sometimes, but the other system did not work out well.
“………This feels a lot like where various current interest groups in our society want to go………”
Excellent post, JMARK. This is EXACTLY where the communists want to go: free housing. We already have free food, free transportation, and free communications in urban environments, and this is the next (there is never a last) step. It’s the transformation of “Welfare as we know it”. It never goes away. It shifts. It’s a shell game. Watch the pea.
A huge step in this transformation was the Faith Based and Community Initiative established by the GW Bush administration. “Compassion in Action”.
Create an industry for government money to flow through, and you create a political army that will fight to keep the gravy train chugging along.
It is always fun to show where many/most of the ideas of the Left come from. The Left is counting on an uninformed and unmotivated opposition. They seem to be winning.
What they need to build are more addiction facilities, mental health facilities, and jails. And something should be done about the extremely long waiting list for housing for those who really do need help and are looking to live in a home.
I watched Muldoon turn into Mt. View after apartment buildings were built there; the traffic is so congested now I avoid Muldoon Rd.
Moved to the valley years ago and am extremely glad I did.
I will second your motion. I was reluctant to move to the valley and I’m very happy I did, and as far as investing goes, the valley is far better than Anchorage for any Real Estate Investor.
We don’t need any developer trying to get rich because he can’t do anything else like go build in another city or state. It’s all about money and they don’t care about people. No to refining as it has worked for a long time.
Can we blame more people moving into Matsu or Eagleriver-chugiak. They want peace, prosperity, and security which Anchorage isn’t giving. But also you know what! if you don’t know God’s word nor raising your children to understand a health fear of God nor READING aloud higher quality juvenile literature books the kind smarter grandparents read to their kids starting at birth, it’s only a matter of time Matsu will have a drug, crime, mental health, and homeless crisis. Then Glennallen, Tok, Nenana,Cantwell, Teekeetna, Valdez would look more desirable.
Poorly raised families make poorer communities.
Yes, that’s the solution. Indoctrinate children with Bronze Age myths from Palestine. Fear of God, the same God you are also ordered to love. Sadomasochism defined.
“……..Sadomasochism defined………..”
As if sadomasochism in practice isn’t exactly what the sex freaks in Anchortown are indoctrinating kids with?
Great non-sequitur.
The gods of the bronze age existed, they were just not God’s but aliens and were misunderstood that way. Same way with Christians. In the years 3 to 400 AD when the new testament was written, power hungry priests wrote a history book based on myths. No proof has ever been presented that Jesus ever existed. Some historical places in the Bible do exist which makes for a good read. But in the Old testament, are we really to believe that people live 900 years or more? Are we supposed to believe that there are watchers, fallen angels that have wings when if they’re true angels they don’t need wings to fly. They don’t need machines to go up into space and ancient men called them chariots of fire. Are we really supposed to believe that there were giants on the earth in those days?? This may actually be true if the DNA from aliens through bread with ancient humans produced Giants. But a lot of power and money has changed hands based on myths and fables. I prefer to look at the science. I do believe there is a God the Creator but all these lesser cast members make parts of the story not believable. How did men and the bronze age lift 100 million pound stones 20 ft in the air like they did in Ballbeck? Yes that’s spelling is inaccurate. I can tell you they didn’t do it with trumpets and horns and things. Religions down through the ages have always strived to manipulate and scare the masses so that they could remain in power and control. Why didn’t they write that Jesus was married? Did he have any kids? Why were the disciples jealous of Mary Magdalene?
Wow!
Yeah, okay.
You took a lot of time to write all that and I took exactly .5 seconds to read the first drivelly sentence, then skipped the rest.
That was my plan.
I’ve noticed, most people who don’t “believe” in God, come from a place of hurt and anger.
You may be wrong.
If I was looking to buy a little land maybe it’ll already have a little house as a get-a-way vacation spot, it wouldn’t be in Eagleriver-chugiak, Wasilla, or Palmer nor Fairbanks, not even Kenai peninsula. Already too many busy bodies -or leftist democrats. I’d be looking at Kenny Lake, Glennallen, Coppercenter, Tok, Nenana, Gulkana, Chitina. I think one day this area will see a population explosion one day, today would be the day to buy property over there to our Glenn Hwy Right side. Cause people always are running away, heading into isolation, never understanding what is unifying to fight for what is right together.
Housing and food have become a larger percentage of budgets as income in Alaska has not kept up with inflation. This is true everywhere, homelessness is more from disinvestment in health treatment and care facilities than housing costs. Municipalities are homeless magnets and has not reached crisis levels to where anyone in Juneau, or Washington DC will provide funding to address.
Frank, about that disinvestment for Mental Health Treatment, didn’t the State settle a billion dollar deal back in the ’80’s for a Mental Health Land Trust? What’s happened to all of that property and Ca$h? Anybody care to comment and enlighten us?
I’ve never had any issues finding an apartment or house to rent, and now I own a house, so I guess that point is moot, but then, I have good credit, stable work history, pay my bills on time, don’t do illegal drugs and don’t break laws, so there’s that. Any crisis in housing is product of poor choices, which will always be with us, and then there’s this nonsense about the “unhoused,” who are bums and need to live out the worst of their choices in order to quit being bums, or be locked up. Perhaps the Native Hospital could put in a detox ward and start caring for those for whom they should be responsible, but then, maybe pigs will fly.
I, too, have an excellent credit rating and pay my bills on time. But I became too ill to work and am thankful for the help I received over the years to pay rent. ?
When I lost my housing 2 years ago it took 9 months to find anything that wasn’t undern$1400/mo. And when I did, their were always dozens of applications before me. People need to understand that sometimes things happen and people need help, especially in an economy that is.out of whack due to excessive government intrusion and the associated costs.
The main problem in Anchorage is the democrat leftist assembly. That it, only the stupid can’t see it…
The native hospital has a detox facility.
Not according to their website, and the cops still take everyone to Klitheroe.
“…….The goal is to build more apartments and condos across every part of the municipality, including Chugiak and Eagle River, and Girdwood……”
…….and then ‘give’ them to the ‘homeless’, funded with government ‘grants’.
Bubba claimed to “end welfare AS WE KNOW IT.” It has been rebranded. Communism won. There are lots of ways to skin a rich cat……….
I will stand behind Kevin Cross! With title 21 it has become increasingly expensive for an investor to try to invest in Anchorage. I’ve been moving my investments to the valley. I moved my family to the valley three years ago and it’s the best thing we ever did, nobody wants long-term resolution for the homeless in Anchorage or we would’ve had it many years ago. Second off, I’ll take the mill rate in the valley over the mill rate in Anchorage.
What part of affordable housing is the affordable part?
Yes, I definitely agree…affordable is getting harder to find. We also need more affordable low-income housing. When a person signs a housing lease, there are rules.. Many people loose their housing due to using drugs and not obeying the other rules listed. etc. Yes,..In Alaska, pot smoking (a drug) is allowed but when you live in low income housing, since they are federally funded, they have rules that people must follow.
I attended the Cross meeting and don’t agree with the stated reason for it even if there is a “housing crisis”. I also find it fishy that a real estate developer is pushing to make it easier to build more houses on less land. I live in Eagle River, but were I to build today….it would be in the MatSu where they aren’t taxing people to death to enact liberal policies and destroy the economy, environment and culture of Alaska. Lest we forget, the Assembly diverted a bunch of COVID $$$ yo combat homelessness. Last I looked they have done nothing to address homelessness except block the Mayor at every opportunity. Follow the money. In this instance, the money stinks of corruption
Kevin Cross is compromised. He stands to make a killing with his new investments. He has undisclosed conflicts of interest. Why isn’t this brought up in the article or anywhere else?
I’d be highly suspicious of this rezoning measure simply by virtue of it being co-sponsored by Meg Zalatel, one of the most notoriously radical and ‘woke’ members of the Assembly’s Marxist Nine.
There will always be a housing crisis when catholic social services and lutheran social services get unlimited helicopter money to import infinity billion people from around the world into Alaska as “refugees”. You notice the population of Alaska went down in the 2020 census, but it feels as crowded as ever? This is why.
These folks get put into apartments and houses with your taxpayer dollars to prop up rental prices and housing prices. If you’re renting out property it’s great for your bottom line. If you’re anyone else… well go to the Fred Meyer on Northern Lights, the Carrs on 13th street, or the Diamond mall. Or alternatively, rent anywhere in Anchorage that isn’t Campbell Lake or the Hillside and enjoy the nightly doorknob check.
With Catholics it’s all about the money and the power. It can’t be about the people, or why else would they reassign pedo priests to a new location after they ruin the lives of countless children? How is doing that the work of the Bible where Jesus? The answer is it’s not it’s blatant hypocrite. Religions only care about you as long as they are in control and are being funded by you, and manipulate the masses. That’s all they care about. Anything else is just a dog and pony show. Believe in the one true God, God the Creator and not in these false prophets.
As of this morning there are 379 houses for sale in the Palmer/Wasilla and surrounding area with a population of roughly 100K.
Anchorage has 239 houses for a population of what? 350K people?
On a per-capita basis the valley has 6X more houses for sale than does Anchorage.
288,000 people in Anchorage, as noted. 1,017 homes for sale, per https://www.rockethomes.com/real-estate-trends/ak/anchorage – sd
And Zillow shows 459 homes for sale (Anchorage-Chugiak-Girdwood). (Rocket Homes shows 490 homes for sale as of July 11 at 3.50pm.)
I really don’t think Town folk will be happy out here in the Valley, no Costco, no Bed Bath and whatever, no Cabela’s. Yup, reckon ya’ all ought ta just stay in Town and clean up your own yards.
Does that mean you’re not going to drive into Anchorage to go to Costco and bed bath & beyond? You’re just going to stay in the valley and peer over each other’s boarded up fences?
Not at all G. I make a run to Costco once a month. That and the airport are the only reasons to come to Los Anchorage and I don’t make the ” 2 and 2″ trip anymore so it is rare to go to the airport. I guess what I am trying to get across. For most of Alaska, but not all of course, Anchorage and Anchoragolitos have become a cut rate version of Seattle/Portland. I also get a kick out of you saying boarded up fences (no fences on my six acres) when just this morning the radio is talking about the North Way Mall being used by your upstanding citizens as a garbage dump. Now think about the effort to actually take your garbage to a parking lot and dumping it vs using a garbage dumpster. You people just belong there and you deserve what you get when 1. not many vote 2. those who do vote in what you get.
I hear you. Just jerking your chain.
Man, I just drove out KGB a couple of weeks ago and now that DOT&PF has cleared the trees, all you can see from the roadway are a bunch of run down ramshackle houses and junkyards…maybe Anchorage and the Valley shouldn’t be trying to have some bravado match.
KGB, The Butte, Meadow Lakes, Willow wa. But the big difference Jaded is for the most part it is their land that they are trashing, Not OPP (other peoples property. good 90s reference).
Might Assembly members Cross (and others) need to lawyer up (not on the muni’s dime) based on this ruling? (Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U. S. 232. Pp. 457 U. S. 806-808.)
“Federal officials seeking absolute immunity from personal liability for unconstitutional conduct must BEAR THE BURDEN (emphasis mine) of showing that public policy requires an exemption…”
If so, taxpayers would not have to foot the bill for lawsuits against assembly members who are held liable for their actions taken leading to a breach of fiduciary duty to their constituents.
Interestingly, would not certain assembly members would personally benefit from overturning Title 21? Kevin Cross is a real estate developer and Meg Zalatel’s big money “day job” is “helping” the homeless, right?
Furthermore, all one needs to do is follow the money of ANYONE (citizens, attorneys and assembly members alike) supporting this effort. Might they also be recipients of the proposed SCAM legislation leading to a windfall of dirty $$$ money?
Downtown Anchorage is starting to look and smell like a cesspool ! I’ve never seen so many Houseless ( and yes Houseless are folks that choose live with out a home ) typically drug addicts , drunks or mentally ill . It’s socially unacceptable in my simple mind . However I notice a direct link to size of city govt and the Houseless problem ! Bigger the city govt , bigger Houseless issue !
Anyone getting sold on this attempt to change the zoning in Eagle River/Chugiak is pretty gullible. I didn’t agree with all of title 21 provisions but my community did. Most of it makes sense. It stops more of these out of state developers from coming in, throwing up a bunch of high density pressboard shacks with pretty paint then fleeing with their money out of lawsuit range before they rapidly deteriorate. Then put pot shops on every corner so their occupants don’t smell the black mold. Right now, the lot size is determined by the necessity of a well and septic system. AWU told us that it was uneconomical to put in water and sewage. But taxpayers are footing the bill in this mass development plan, giving the developers a huge break in costs. And the savings will not be passed on. They propose to sell these 6-8 hundred square foot shacks stacked like cordwood for nearly 400,000 a piece (with taxpayer provided subsidies) and easy terms. And their reason is the dreamed up housing shortage of course. The only advantage achieved by this type of development will be to the developers and their agents bank accounts, while the people who purchase these properties will have to give them back to the banks when they fall apart in a few years of our winters. Our local community councils are opposed to this plan yet they have redoubled their efforts to push on. Must be planning a tidy profit. This needs to be stopped. Our community is not for sale.
This is exactly why people get into politics. You can bet that Kevin Cross had this planned out way before he even sent out his first campaign post card. Ran on some sort of “conservative” platform, saying his intent was to “help” out the communities by saving them money in taxes, etc…. Now, like all, and I mean ALL politicians, he’s there to make MONEY. You all got hoodwinked!!
Yep, and he has publicly said that he doesn’t care about re-election.
Seems like something’s off when Madam Editor’s facts notwithstanding, Team Cross seem poised to hit the jackpot from some real-estate scheme they’re instigating, while Anchorage homeowner-taxpayers get screwed (again).
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Mr. Cross’s CV is impressive: “In his professional career he has served as 2012 President of The Anchorage Board of Realtors, is Vice Chair of the Anchorage Platting Board, and President of The Real Estate Exchange (REX), Alaska’s largest network of Real Estate Investors. He is currently President and Broker of Real Estate Brokers of Alaska, one of Alaska’s largest Real Estate Brokerages. Kevin has been featured on many Real Estate Investing national pod casts and is a paid professional speaker teaching real estate investing principals across the United States.
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Mrs. Cross is a mortgage lender.
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(linkedin.com/in/kevin-cross-2017b6a)
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Think about this. Please read it again, slowly.
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There’s nothing wrong with wildly successful free enterprise… or could there be when Team Cross appear to control both real-estate market and government regulation of the real-estate market?
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And while we’re on a roll, just who are these investors, might some be players who need to launder money through a mortgage lender to have it come out clean at the end as Tiny Houses, or whatever Team Cross is pushing?
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Is Anchorage being offered as bait to revive its moribund real-estate industry which, by the way, is solely responsible for propping up Anchorage’s government and school district in the extravagant style to which officials have become entitled?
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What are we looking at, rebirth of Soviet-style central planning at its finest, or just plain old Russian-style oligarchy at its crass-est, a toxic mixture of both?
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How can Eaglexit cure anything if Eagle River’s leading residents are the source of this problem?
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Want to beat this, why not change the state of play, un-level the playing field for starters?
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What, Gentle Readers, will it take to do this?
Anyone remember the classic movie Roadhouse? “I built this town!” “J.C. Penny came here because of me!”..Sounds like Cross watched it..
For conservatives against this zoning change, please read.
Many cities in California heavily resist any changes to their planned zoning, to protect their single family homes. Is this the eutopia you want to live in? Resistance to zoning changes only creates unsustainable housing bubbles. If you think that the only people who will benefit are developers like Kevin Cross, you are wrong. Zoning changes give everyday people more freedom. Want a shop in your backyard? Have extra yard space to breakup and sell to pay for your mortgage? These are things that you could not do in the current system.
I just moved here from Idaho for the same issue. The mass zoned single family homes were not an issue, until a ton of people started to flood into the system. When I left last year, the only thing you could buy was a new construction single family home for 400k plus, on farmland that was that same price for 50+ acres 2 years prior.
It is my opinion that getting ahead of these housing bubbles would only help Anchorage in the long run.
Idaho do they have the massive drug addicted, mediocre and dependent, mental health issues, and homeless problems Alaska been facing. Those California runaways are they the addicted, mentally ill, homeless. Relaxing Idaho’s zoning may help Idaho better than Alaska because of sudden population boom. What can happen in one state can be to another state’s quality of life demise. You must know your state and what will work and can work in it. A state is like leading spouse or family. What is needed or used for one family, wouldn’t be good for yours. Like for mine I have a child I can’t use spanking even though I am not an opponent I must use other disciplines that I can use cause when I tried spanking it didn’t bring results I seem brought in other families where it worked well for them. You hadn’t been on Alaska soil to understand and know us as a people. We aren’t Idahoans.
No, I would not call the drug/homeless/mental health issues massive in Idaho, but they are definitely developing. You see many of the same issues as Anchorage has. Young adults stuck at home through their 20-30s, rent costing half your salary if you don’t have a spouse. I feel as though this is less of a question of discipline in the household, and more of a conversation of do you feed your kids. If you don’t give people an opportunity to involve themselves in the system, then you will never see long term success.
Newcomer: Your relocation to Alaska and seemingly out of nowhere overwhelming “support” for real estate developer-turned assembly person Kevin Cross’s proposal to destroy Eagle River and the Anchorage muni at large (which would only profit Cross, Zalatel and their construction cronies) is questionable. As it’s been said: Following the money trail exposes the crime. Cross has exposed himself for who he really is— and anyone who would support this atrocity have zero interest in anything but their wallets.
You hit your kid? Shame on you.
It’s pretty funny seeing so many “conservatives” fighting to prevent a free market for housing. Increase supply and prices will fall – but according to some, Anchorage is “full.” Full of dilapidated homes and parking lots and empty commercial properties; what Cross wants to do is make it easier to build more homes. That’s all – it used to be a lot easier to build homes here. You can’t build a 4-plex on a 6000sqft lot any more, but there are a ton of those around; we restricted housing supply to benefit existing landowners. Pretend it’s something else if you want – we just need more homes.
In my opinion that’s all they do anymore is fight amongst themselves. I used to be a conservative and still am in a lot of ways, but by their definition I am a leftist. They think by calling me that it hurts my feelings but I really don’t care. I have migrated more towards the center and look both directions for what best serves me.
Undeniable statistics prove the Anchorage Muni is bleeding taxpaying residents.
Suzanne’s well researched column proves why there’s zero need for more homes.
What is needed is what Mayor Bronson continues to propose: a navigational-type center for drug addicts & mentally ill. The remaining few, minuscule percentage, of so-called “homeless” people who actually want a helping hand-up will get that as well— and will become likely become contributing members of society by working and earning their keep.
Those who are able to work-but refuse to—should remain homeless. Period.
Obviously, commenter “Common Sense” aligns with the Cross-Zalatel effort to
destroy Eagle River and the Muni-at-large by padding their personal pocketbooks. Follow the money. Anyone smelling the stench of scandal here?
I would like to hear how you think this would benefit developers like Cross. I see a world where people like me and you could build condos right outside of their pristine neighborhoods, which would only decrease the value of their development. Also, do you feel like Anchorage has improved since Title 21 passed?
Newcomer, it doesn’t matter how I (or anyone else) “feel,” about Title 21.
What matters is whether assembly members qualify for absolute immunity from civil lawsuits (potentially thousands) based on actions they’ve taken which effectively diminish taxpaying citizens’ safety and quality of life and depreciation of property—under the guise of “fixing homelessness.
Fully one half of Alaska’s population has streamed to Mecca, Alaska. Otherwise known as Anchorage, Alaska. More are coming from distressed, struggling rural areas for better access to education and employment options. The state of Alaska and those within the nation and foreign and subterranean puppeteers (Janet Yellen) prefer stunted economic growth for the entire state. So, generally the puppets in Juneau agree to stunt: rights of republic freemen in total and to highly and rigidly control the Anchorage residents any remaining units of production. The state of Alaska land in Anchorage should be donated to the poor. We are behind in building “the projects” for the poor of Alaska. This is why we have language. To speak of this current social, unigovernment social policy. It is not working out optimally because to speak of it truthfully would not be accepted as anything but “racist”. Americans remain pollyannas even at this late date of arrested developmint.
As we worship at the dias of “planners” in Anchorage for the time being “force”seeable future, is it permissible to ask thum if they are willing to place ALL of Alaska into non-snout house “varied” suburbs in Anchorage though some of whom have had the unsocial audacity to have the snouts obviously facing the wrong direction! :*[
In haste I neglected allude to the allowed three (3) minutes of polite grovelling sometimes allowed in the very late evening hours at the cement ediface where they deign to dine and rule over Anch. currently paid for by dispossessed predecessors.
If they had it their way, we would all live in vertical slums.
Without our express permission, how are they within rights to give away our hard-won public recreation and entertainment centers?
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