Alyeska Resort is building a $6.6 million development to house workers. Companies are also turning to a former state ferry and military housing to provide accommodations.
If they do, there’s a line of people who need it, it won’t be cheap — and the place might come without plumbing.That’s pricing many of the town’s service workers out of the market, she said.
Anchor 907, a government contracting company in Homer owned by two Navy retirees, has proposed creating housing by importing surplus military barracks from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.are approaching 300 unfilled jobs, and we don’t have any available housing.” “A yurt is going for $2,100 a month, with no running water, between June and September, on Airbnb,” he said. “It just shows you how impossible it is for workers here.”
“The government has spent the money on the construction and engineering costs, so we are trying to leverage that to do a good thing for the community,” he said. Tom Tougas, owner of Major Marine Tours, looks at ongoing remodeling of what was once a church, which the company will use to house seasonal employees in Seward on May 13.
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