Daniel Volland: Anchorage Assembly member on housing

North Anchorage Assembly Member Daniel Volland was born and raised in Washington State, and began coming to Alaska regularly in 2016 to do remote work as an optometrist. After relocating permanently to Anchorage in 2019, he became very active very quickly in local politics and successfully ran for the newly established 12th seat on the Anchorage Assembly in the summer of 2022. Today he is talking about the Anchorage Assembly’s Housing Action Strategic Plan and the Anchorage Housing Action Week that just finished with a big summit on Friday. That summit was held at UAA and the keynote address was given by Charles Marohn, a land-use planner and municipal engineer who advocates for the development of dense towns and the restructuring of suburbia. I bring this up because he features prominently in my conversation with Assembly member Volland.

 Important links:
1. Anchorage Assembly Housing Focus Page

2. Charles Marohn's book Strong Towns

3. Charles Montgomery's book Happy Cities

4. Zoom link to Tenants' Rights meeting, Thursday, Nov. 9, 5:30 - 6:15 pm