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SUMMARY:Housing and Homelessness Town Hall Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Facebook Live for this four-part series where state legislative candidates will discuss their perspectives and policy goals on the suite of issues pertaining to housing in Anchorage.\n\n \n\n\n\n\nSeptember 10th Northeast Anchorage and Eagle River (facebook.com/events/3116278261932525)\n\nSeptember 17th Downtown and Midtown (facebook.com/events/351315552716119)\n\nSeptember 24th West and Southwest Anchorage (facebook.com/events/255650392142581)\n\nOctober 1st South Muldoon\, South Anchorage\, and Girdwood (facebook.com/events/789188438522237)\n\n \n\n\n\n\nThe Anchorage Home Builder's Association (AHBA) and the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness (ACEH) will partner with the Seawolf Speech and Debate Program\, the Anchorage Daily News\, and the Rasmuson Foundation to host four live-streamed candidate town hall discussions for upcoming state elections.\n\n\n\nThis is intended to be a neutral platform for candidates to discuss their perspectives and policy goals on the suite of issues pertaining to housing and homelessness in Anchorage. This opportunity provides a forum to share information with the community on the systemic challenges to residential development\, housing affordability\, and addressing homelessness.\n\n\n\nThe need for this platform has been emphatically endorsed by both private builders as well as non-profit affordable housing and other service providers: namely the cost/difficulty erecting four walls within the Municipality is a major (but poorly understood/appreciated) barrier to improving the quality and affordability of our housing stock\; this is true throughout the entirety of the price spectrum and has a direct impact on the building industry\, cost and availability of local labor\, and access to affordable housing. Simultaneously\, there is a public outcry to address impacts of homelessness in our community that struggles to meaningfully engage with homelessness' root causes.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us on Facebook Live for this four-part series where state legislative candidates will discuss their perspectives and policy goals on the suite of issues pertaining to housing in Anchorage.
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\nThe Anchorage Home Builder&rsquo\;s Association (AHBA) and the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness (ACEH) will partner with the Seawolf Speech and Debate Program\, the Anchorage Daily News\, and the Rasmuson Foundation to host four live-streamed candidate town hall discussions for upcoming state elections.
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\nThis is intended to be a neutral platform for candidates to discuss their perspectives and policy goals on the suite of issues pertaining to housing and homelessness in Anchorage. This opportunity provides a forum to share information with the community on the systemic challenges to residential development\, housing affordability\, and addressing homelessness.\n\n
\nThe need for this platform has been emphatically endorsed by both private builders as well as non-profit affordable housing and other service providers: namely the cost/difficulty erecting four walls within the Municipality is a major (but poorly understood/appreciated) barrier to improving the quality and affordability of our housing stock\; this is true throughout the entirety of the price spectrum and has a direct impact on the building industry\, cost and availability of local labor\, and access to affordable housing. Simultaneously\, there is a public outcry to address impacts of homelessness in our community that struggles to meaningfully engage with homelessness&rsquo\; root causes.
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URL:https://business.anchoragechamber.org/events/details/housing-and-homelessness-town-hall-series-10-01-2020-8650
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