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Tongass Tiny Home finds a home in Juneau Posted by Erin McKinstry, KCAW | May 7, 2021 The Tongass Tiny Home project was a collaboration between the Sitka Conservation Society and Sitka High School. (Photo by Amelia Milling/SCS) The Tongass Tiny Home project, a six-year collaboration between the Sitka Conservation Society and Sitka High School, has finally come to an end. The student-built tiny house was sold to a buyer in Juneau this spring. As part of KCAW’s Building Solutions series about affordable housing, Sitka Conservation Society’s Chandler O’Connell spoke with KCAW’s Erin McKi...

A year after Sitka made space for tiny homes, no one is building them Posted by Erin McKinstry, KCAW | May 7, 2021 Stephanie Kruse and her husband paid a company in British Columbia to build their roughly 8.5 x 20 foot tiny home. Living in it allowed them to save money for travel and a down payment on a traditional house. (Photo by Erin McKinstry/KCAW) Tiny homes have gained traction in recent years as an affordable housing alternative, but building them legally poses challenges in many communities. Sitka was one of the first cities in the country to introduce a set of tiny home friendly code...

A small community in Southeast Alaska is putting health first. With only 14 miles of paved roads and a population of just over 8,640 people, its size and remoteness —