Why Alaska Is Overcrowded

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[electricpaper]

It’s only artificially overcrowded. It’s laws that make it difficult to build housing.

[redrox]

1 year ago: why no one lives in Alaska

Now: how Alaska got so overcrowded

Damn

[amochswohntet]

Do you see how they gaslight homebuyers? Saying the prices aren't unfair, there are just too many buyers?
The housing market has been weaponized by coordinated cross-corporate pricing schemes, and is hostile to consumers.

[lqla]

I visited Alaska when it wasn’t winter. It was beautiful but the mosquitoes made me never want to go back 😂

[Bleakmarrow]

As an Alaskan, I can confirm we try our best to keep people out of our state :)

[josephindahl]

42 year Alaska resident here. its only going to continue to get worse as long as short term rentals are still a thing, people make a killing in the summer renting out places, so any thing that used to be affordable is now a rental property of some sort. they are building a lot of affordable housing out in the Valley in the last couple of years, but ultimately i dont think that will make a huge difference

[jasonberg]

Bru it ain’t even overcrowded tho there’s like a biggish city and then a mid size city lol and then tiny towns scattered across the massive state

[greasher]

Alaska is not over crowded, sure maybe it’s having a housing shortage but those are completely different things. Plus when look across the Bering sea, Siberia has cities that are further north that are larger and growing faster than Anchorage.

City (latitude): 2023 / 2020 (change %)
Yakutsk (62°01′48″N): 361, 154 / 322, 987 (+11.8%)
Anchorage (61°13′00″N): 286, 075 / 291, 247 (−1.8%)

[Lemnsquid]

Sounds like NJ. When every home built in the past 20 years comes at an 800k price tag, it’s no wonder the overwhelming majority of people can’t afford to own a home. There is no home shortage, just an abundance of greed.

[LucasDimoveo]

Few places in the US are overcrowded. Not only are there vast spaces between cities in the US, but much of the "cities" in the US are suburbs tightly ringing a downtown. Ffs, even NYC is too spread out when one considers Staten Island and Queens.

[alaskanmooseman]

Anchorage resident here: the city makes it stupidly difficult, lengthy, and expensive to build new housing. That's the primary reason in Anchorage.

[SomethingDifferentFilms]

Thank you for watching my video on the housing crisis in Alaska

[buttole]

tiny homes in alaska sounds like a death sentence

[andrerobins]

We bought our home in Anchorage for 240, 000 in 2006. We sold that same home last week for 500, 000. there are no affordable single-family homes for middle-class families in Alaska. If you didn’t buy your home before 2010 you were price out of the market.

[milliedragon]

Alaska's not overcrowded, It does have some political, geographical, infrastructural reasons that limit its growth.
To me, there are places that are genuinely overcrowded like Tokyo or New York City to give it example, I genuinely would say most places aren't overcrowded.
But I wouldn't say majority of that is the case for the world. However, spreading " urban sprawl" out the way that human beings tend to prefer is that once a city gets filled up or the growth is limited whether by natural means, by zoning, or technological limitations.
Sprawl isn't good either. For the environment. So we have to find ways to enjoy our urban environments more. A lot of Alaskan cities face just like any other American cities poor urbanism. But that's a different subject.

[caseysweat]

when construction companies only build luxury or semi-luxury housing for 20 years straight this is what we get. Not only in Alaska but the entire U.S

[daveharrison]

Oslo and Stockholm are dense transit oriented cities. Anchorage can be too.

[gothwolf]

Apartments would be both more affordable and significantly more efficient to heat and cool AND would moderate urban/suburban sprawl from encroaching on wild spaces (which the state) relies on economically). But unfortunately luxury McMansions is all anyone wants to build.

[paxundpeace]

The issue is that it lacks multistory homes and Appartment buildings.
The issue is like in many places within remote areas like in popular Rocky Mountain retreats that they lack simple cheap and affordable housing.
1 bed one bath or 2 bed one bath units or evem Studios.

[Monteezy]

Good video...7:08 that company's name is pronounced Con-no-co, not Co-cone-no.