Local code and utility tariffs are tools Alaska can use to fix the housing shortage

By: Ross Johnston

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: October 2, 2026

Words: 1,393

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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Alaska has roughly the population it had in 2013. What little growth the state has seen in the past three years came from residents over 65, while the working-age population shrank. A state that is not growing should not have a housing shortage.

It has one anyway.

Rental vacancy in March was 4.9% in Anchorage, 3.5% in Mat-Su and 4.1% in Juneau, according to the Department of Labor’s spring survey. Affordable housing from …

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