Housing Alaskans Awards Grants for 77 New Homes Across 13 Alaska Communities. New funding unlocks shovel-ready housing projects for Alaska’s workforce, teachers, seniors, and storm-impacted communities.
Housing Alaskans today (May 28th, 2026) announced grants supporting 77 new housing units across 13 Alaska communities, accelerating shovel-ready projects that had stalled for lack of final “top-off” capital. The awards span rental and ownership units affordable for Alaska’s workforce, teachers, and seniors, including five projects in communities recovering from the recent devastating storms.
The $1,500,669 awarded to the 13 projects was provided by the Denali Commission, Wells Fargo Foundation, Northrim Bank, the Block Foundation, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines.
2026 Grant Awardees
•Anchorage – Airport Heights Senior Housing
•Chevak – Chevak House Kits
•Chignik – Chignik Lagoon Apartments
•Healy Lake – Healy Lake Professional Housing
•Kenai – Rainbow Flats I
•Kodiak – Self-Help Housing
•Nome – KINC 6th Ave
•Nulato – Nulato Teacher Housing Units
•Noatak – Teacher Housing
•Petersburg – Nordic Apartments
•Scammon Bay – Scammon Bay Housing Program
•Sitka – S’us’ Heeni Shaak Uplands
•South Naknek – S. Naknek Duplexes
Addressing Alaska’s Housing Crisis
Alaska’s housing shortage is deepening workforce shortages, forcing businesses to turn away growth opportunities, and compelling communities to cut essential services. Securing capital to build homes affordable for Alaska’s workforce is an expensive, years-long process — and rising costs continually move the goalpost.
Housing Alaskans was created to cut through that challenge. By building on project reviews already completed by other public and private funders, Housing Alaskans eliminates redundant paperwork, fills final funding gaps, gets homes built faster, and unlocks committed but unused investments from those other funders. In this cycle alone, the 28 applicants had combined investments exceeding $60 million waiting on the sidelines for lack of a relatively small additional amount to launch or complete the housing.
“Alaska faces some of the most complex housing challenges in the United States, from high construction costs to remote logistics. Alaska needs shovels in the ground. Housing Alaskans funding is designed to do exactly that by streamlining project development and maximizing the impact of public and private investment.” Shauna Hegna, Chair, Board of Directors, Housing Alaskans
With these 77 new units, Housing Alaskans has helped 24 projects in 19 communities open the doors to 222 new homes for Alaskans since it was created in 2022.