man stands astatine podiumGabe Layman, president and CEO of Cook Inlet Housing Authority. (Leigh Walden/Alaska Public Media)

A awesome supplier of affordable lodging successful Anchorage conscionable sewage a spot much thief to meet nan request for caller homes. 

Cook Inlet Housing Authority has won a $6 cardinal Indian Housing artifact assistance from nan U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Cook Inlet CEO Gabe Layman says it was a competitory assistance and nan costs are successful summation to its regular Indian Housing funds.

“We’re going to beryllium utilizing this to conception 43 units of housing, astir half and half – family lodging and elder housing,” he said. “And 3 of those units will beryllium designated for location ownership.”

High-ranking HUD officials are visiting Alaska this week and made nan announcement successful Anchorage.

Layman can’t yet opportunity wherever successful Anchorage nan improvement will be, because nan statement is finalizing negotiations.

Cook Inlet Housing has built astir 2000 rental units successful Southcentral Alaska complete nan past 20 years, making it nan main supplier of affordable lodging successful Anchorage. It’s a tribal lodging authority, but it serves different low- and moderate-income Alaskans, too.

“We’ll usage our tribal lodging funds, and we’ll usage that to catalyze a development, to pull further resources, and past to build a improvement that serves everyone successful our community,” he said. “In that way, we’re capable to build much homes for our Alaska Native and American Indian residents present successful Anchorage, but astatine nan aforesaid time, we’re capable to supply lodging opportunities for everyone successful our community.”

About a 3rd of Cook Inlet Housing’s tenants are Indigenous Alaskans aliases American Indians, Layman said.

The assistance was portion of a $150 cardinal distribution to tribal lodging authorities nationwide.