As election season gets underway in earnest, the four most prominent candidates to be Anchorage’s next mayor spoke about the workforce shortage, regulatory impediments, and infrastructure as part of a panel hosted by the Alaska Home Builders Association.
At first major forum, Anchorage mayoral candidates address housing shortage, with little consensus on what to doThe Anchorage Home Builders Association hosted a mayoral candidate forum at the BP Energy Center in Anchorage on February 6, 2024. From left are Bill Popp, Chris Tuck, Mayor Dave Bronson, and Suzanne LaFrance.
“Local government has a power to convene, and bring people in…and use the assets of the municipality in a way to help promote what is good for all of us,” LaFrance said.She said the municipality could look north to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which despite dealing with the same set of challenges, like high interest rates, costly building supplies, and competition for labor, has managed to build at about seven times the rate as Anchorage relative to its population.
“We are asleep at the wheel when it comes to a national competition,” Popp said. “We haven’t been reinvesting in ourselves. We’ve been cutting our way to success.”
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