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These cities raised taxes — for child care. Parents say the free day care 'changed my life'
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. She didn’t have enough money to afford...
Anchorage hotel conversions are adding hundreds of low-income housing and shelter units at a time of...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJul. 28—In a combined effort with local nonprofits, the Municipality of Anchorage has put tens of millions of dollars toward converting several former hotels into housing. When all buildings ...
Alaska Department of Health sued over cash assistance delays for blind, disabled and elderly...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApr. 18—JUNEAU — An Anchorage civil rights law firm filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the state Department of Health over delays processing applications for a program that provides ...
Anchorage Assembly to weigh final measures to open Golden Lion as supportive housing
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJul. 10—The Municipality of Anchorage is close to opening a supportive housing facility inside of a city-owned property that's been at the heart of contentious debates over housing and homelessness ...
Amid a statewide labor shortage, Alaska builders are delaying projects and relying on Outside...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoAug. 8—The custom homes that Bill Taylor builds in Anchorage can now take a full year to complete, twice as long as they once did, because workers are hard to find amid a labor shortage that's ...
Anchorage gave her a $1.6 million grant despite prior fraud allegations. Now she's under...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 31—This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. Two years ago, in May 2021, the Anchorage Assembly gave $1.6 million to a little-known charity that ...
Purchase finalized to make downtown Anchorage hotel into low-income and supportive housing for...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 21—GuestHouse Inn More than 130 people who have been experiencing homelessness in Anchorage now have permanent housing after a deal closed last week to permanently transform a former hotel ...
Anchorage Assembly will consider delaying Sullivan Arena closure for most vulnerable shelter...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApr. 19—Sullivan Arena is likely to remain open as a low-barrier shelter past the looming April 30 deadline that Anchorage Assembly members unanimously voted to approve earlier this month. Though ...
Alaska child care crisis more acute than ever, legislators hear
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 19—JUNEAU — Alaska's child care crisis is more acute than ever and the end of federal COVID-19 relief has created a looming fiscal cliff, according to providers and parents. The state has ...
Alaska child care providers struggle to stay open as pandemic-era relief funds dry up
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSep. 26—With pandemic-era federal relief funds set to dry up at the end of the month, many child care providers in Alaska say they're facing a stark choice: to significantly raise their rates ...