Alaska Housing Summit 2025

Southcentral Foundation Nuka Learning Institute, 4085 Tudor Centre Drive, Anchorage, AK 99507

Join housing advocates, service providers, policymakers, and community leaders from across Alaska for two days of collaboration, learning, and action at the Alaska Housing Summit 2025. Hosted by the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness and the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, this summit will feature keynote speakers, insightful plenaries, and engaging breakout sessions designed to spark innovative solutions to Alaska’s housing challenges.

Over the course of two days, attendees will:

• Gain insight from leading voices in housing, homelessness, and community development.

• Explore innovative partnerships and real-world success stories from across Alaska and beyond.

• Participate in focused breakout sessions covering topics from coordinated entry and healthcare integration to youth engagement, housing rights, and rural community strategies.

• Network with peers during dedicated coffee breaks, lunch sessions, and the Day 1 evening mixer at the Nave.

Please Note: This event is sold out. However, you can still be part of the conversation — the full summit will be live-streamed right here on this page so you can tune in from anywhere.

Agenda

9:00 AM - Check in, coffee, HUD Office Hours

9:30 AM - Welcome

10:00 AM - “Setting the Stage” Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness and Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness - Presentation Slides

11:00 AM - “Partnerships for Opportunity” - Chief Seattle Club

Join Chief Seattle Club for an overview of our Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives, designed to provide long-term, culturally-rooted housing solutions for Native people experiencing chronic homelessness. This presentation will highlight our housing model, the importance of culturally specific support services, and the transformative impact of stable housing on community wellness and healing

12:00 PM - Lunch

1:15 PM - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Breakout Room A  “100% Communities & 907 Navigation App” - Alaska Impact Alliance 

Dr. Charity Carmody will share community-driven strategies advancing housing stability and family well-being across Alaska. This session will feature the 907 Navigation App, a powerful tool designed to simplify system navigation by connecting individuals and families to local resources across housing, food, health, education, and more. She will also discuss the 100% Communities Initiative, a data-informed framework working to ensure every family has access to ten vital services, and the expansion of Family Resource Centers as trusted, prevention-focused hubs that meet families where they are. Together, these initiatives offer practical, scalable solutions for building stronger, more resilient communities across the state.

Breakout Room B “Imagine Alaska Has Ample, Affordable, Quality Housing: How do we get there?” Housing Alaskans a Public Private Partnership 

Our problem statement: we’re approaching housing project by project and jurisdiction by jurisdiction - that level of planning is not commensurate with the scale of the housing shortage. Our thesis: A coordinated, strategic approach will expedite progress to increase affordable, quality housing across Alaska. Our intent is to facilitate a future-looking, strategic conversation with full group participation. Each person’s experiences with housing projects and living in Alaska communities will be a valuable part of the conversation, identifying key strategic levers that “lift all boats.”

Main Room “Voices Of Our Neighbors: Impactful Dialogues” People with lived experience supported by the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness 

Join us for a dynamic panel featuring people with lived expertise in homelessness sharing their perspectives on how to create meaningful dialogue and drive real change within the homelessness response system. Drawing from personal experiences and referencing an event held by the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness in January, panelists will speak to what authentic inclusion looks like and how systems can better center their voices. Attendees will engage through a Q&A and interactive small group discussions. This panel will be supported by a community moderator and coalition staff.

2:30 PM - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Breakout Room A “The Relationship Between Coordinated Entry and Healthcare” Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness 

This presentation will inform you on the current landscape of cross-sector integration between housing & homelessness systems and healthcare systems in Anchorage, Alaska. Leveraging HMIS data, this presenter will highlight end user experiences, overview current system gaps and explore inspiring efforts from other communities and ways they can translate into local system enhancements.

Breakout Room B “Keeping Families Together: Housing as a Key to Family and Young Adult Stability through Cross Sector Collaboration” Corporation for Supportive Housing

The homelessness and child welfare systems share common goals, to keep families and young adults safe and stable. This session will allow participants to explore how cross-sector partnerships and approaches can transform systems to effectively serve families and young adults who are at the intersection of the homelessness and child welfare systems. An initiative called Keeping Families Together (KFT) encourages child welfare, housing and other service systems to make changes that increase access to housing resources and increase housing stability for families and young adults. KFT is a 2- generation, family centered approach that encourages communities to include parents and young adults with lived expertise in planning and implementation. KFT requires strong cross sector partnership, with local housing and child welfare systems collaborating to interrupt cycles of housing insecurity, child welfare involvement, poverty, and trauma. 

Main Room “Rediscovering Alaska’s Right to Housing” ACLU Alaska What would it look like to have a constitutional right to housing ​in Alaska? Early drafts of the Alaska Constitution provided for such a right explicitly. However, the authors ultimately decided not to include it because they believed the Constitution's public health and welfare clauses were broad enough to encompass housing as well. In this breakout session, Helen Malley will provide a brief presentation on the history of the right to housing in Alaska and lead a discussion about what it would mean to recognize this right today.

3:30 PM - Day 1 Plenary - Chief Seattle Club, CEO Derrick Belgarde

6:00 PM - Mixer at the Nave

August 20th, 2025

9:00 AM - Coffee and HUD Office Hours

9:30 AM - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Breakout Room A “From Burden to Benefit: Using HMIS Data for Community Impact” Institute for Community Alliances

This session introduces the Alaska Homeless Management Information System (AKHMIS), covering its purpose, available resources, and practical strategies for leveraging data at project, community, and policy levels. Attendees will learn how AKHMIS informs federal funding, shapes state and local initiatives, and provides actionable insights. 

Main Room “Youth with Lived Experience Improve the System” Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

10:45 AM - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Breakout Room A “Grassroots Programming: Stories from Sitka on Empowering Your Community to Make an Impact” Sitka Homeless Coalition

The presentation will describe the founding, creating, and impact of grassroots programming that has happened in Sitka in the past two years, including a shelter made possible by the partnership of a local church and a dinner program made possible by a local grocer. There will be discussion about the Sitka Homeless Coalition overall and the larger project of PSH units at the Hítx'i Sáani community and how grassroots organizing has made our organization and the development of PSH in a rural SE Alaska community possible. Finally, presenters will discuss and guide the creation of ideas and pathways for other communities to start or continue grassroots organizing and programming in their communities.

Main Room “Increasing the Pipeline to Supportive Housing” Corporation for Supportive Housing

This workshop covers the three-legged stool of Supportive Housing: Development, Operating and Services. Development includes sharing information on supportive housing development and decision guides for supportive housing projects, including information on pre-development work and accessing capital budgets. Operating includes property management, rental assistance and operating budgets. Services include trauma responsive design, individualized services for tenants, and incorporating tenant feedback. This workshop will include an overview of supportive housing with a focus on development and will share case study and tools to consider when planning a supportive housing development. 

11:45 AM - Lunch

12:30 PM - Day 2 Plenary - Alaska Federation of Natives, President Ben Mallott

1:00 PM - National Low Income Housing Coalition and Continuum of Care Staff - A Changing Federal Landscape

1:45 PM - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Breakout Room A “How To Make Coordinated Entry Work In Rural Communities” Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

Would you like to improve collaboration among local partners in your community? This breakout session is a discussion forum for you to share about collaboration initiatives in your community, learn how other communities are collaborating, and see how the Coordinated Entry model can be used to strengthen local partnerships. You do not need to be a federally funded program recipient to attend this session. This discussion space is for everyone!

Breakout Room B “Infrastructure Starts Indoors: How Housing Holds the Keys to Alaska's Energy Security” Association of Alaska Housing Authorities

Attendees will gain insight into how Regional Housing Authorities construct and operate the most energy-efficient housing in the state, and how expanding the supply of high-performance, affordable housing could help solve for both homelessness and our imminent energy security challenges

Main Room “HomePlate: Two Years Later” Nome Community Center

HomePlate Nome is a program of the Nome Community Center serving chronic homeless in the small community on the Bering Sea. After operating the Winter Shelter and scattered sites for nearly 12 years, a more permanent solution for housing was explored for those who could succeed in housing with supportive programming. What we learned from our unique population helped us with the design. Two years of fundraising, a commitment from the Board

of Directors and support from the community, a structure was built and community members housed. There were some surprises in the process, some things we learned along the way and some unexpected outcomes that were positive and encouraging. We will share some of those surprises, some outcomes and some stories of those who have been our guests at HomePlate Nome.

3:00 PM - Closing Remarks

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