YPG Lunch & Learn with the Anchorage Assembly

Is the Rent Too Damn High? Talking Housing Policy with Assembly Members Baldwin Day and Martinez

Anchorage's housing challenges affect more than where people live they impact our workforce, economy, and the future of our community. Join fellow YPG members for an important conversation about what comes next.

What You'll Learn & Experience:

Get the latest update on the Anchorage Assembly's Housing Action Plan.
Explore the impact of rising rent and mortgage costs on young professionals and Anchorage's workforce.
Learn about the "Missing Middle" housing initiative and how it could expand housing options in our community.
Be part of the conversation about how Anchorage can remain a place where young professionals can afford to live, work, and build their futures.

Come for lunch, stay for the conversation, and help shape the future of housing in Anchorage!

Erin is a born and raised Alaskan "boomerang kid" after graduating from East Anchorage High School in 2000, she left to go to college in the Lower 48 and returned to Anchorage in 2009 to raise her own family in Midtown.

Following fifteen years of service as a local policy advocate, community organizer, pastor, and nonprofit leader, she joins the Assembly with a particular focus on the issues that impact the daily lives of working people in Anchorage: housing supply, childcare access, and transportation infrastructure.
Erin lives in University Park with her husband of twenty years, two fantastic teenagers, and a dog named Max. When she's not at work you might find her flying down a trail on her fat tire bike, whipping up delicious messes in the kitchen, writing bad poetry, or enjoying live music. She lives by the mantra that "the long moral arc of the universe only bends toward justice if the people do the pulling."

George is a husband, father of two ASD students, dog dad to Betty, Popeye, and Hunter-Simon. He is a self-employed strategic consultant and has built a diverse career as a community organizer, college professor, artist, and government and nonprofit executive, including service as a U.S. cultural envoy with international diplomatic assignments across the Western Hemisphere.

He previously served as a Special Assistant to the Mayor of Anchorage and as President of the Northeast Community Council, where he worked to strengthen neighborhoods and bring people together. George currently chairs the Assembly's Community and Economic Development Committee and is a vice-chair of the National Association of Counties subcommittee on housing.

He is committed to bringing people together to build a connected, safe, and thriving Anchorage, where businesses succeed, our economy grows, neighborhoods flourish, and families are healthy and prosperous.

Date and Time

Tuesday Sep 22, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM AKDT

Tuesday, September 22. 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location

Loussac Library
Salmon Meeting Room - 3rd Floor
3600 Denali Street, Anchorage AK 99503

Contact Information

ypg@anchoragechamber.org
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