HUD secretary learns about housing challenges during Alaska visit
Associated PressANCHORAGE, Alaska — A senior Biden administration official learned how housing and homeless issues are different in Alaska during a visit this week to the nation’s largest state. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge finished a two-day stop with a discussion with Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, local leaders and Alaska Native officials in Anchorage, Alaska Public Media reported. “In Alaska, it’s actually the flip side.” Anchorage leaders also raised concerns about what they called an unfair agency formula for distributing funding to address homelessness in urban Anchorage. About $45 million was awarded to seven tribes in the Pacific Northwest, including $7.5 million each for the Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority in southeast Alaska and the Kenaitze-Salamatof tribal housing entity on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.
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