0:33
Anna Brawley
5:36 - 6:09
"if you're, you have a challenging building environment, then it's, it could seem like punishing a municipality that isn't, you know, isn't doing enough"
“if you're, you have a challenging building environment, then it's, it could seem like punishing a municipality that isn't, you know, isn't doing enough”
- Speaker
- Anna Brawley
- Timestamp
- 5:36 – 6:09
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 6, 2026
From the transcript
Yeah, thanks. Yeah, totally heard. The other, I guess, I want to understand a little bit more, at least as it is right now, the Build Now provision. So as you said, I understand the general purpose of that seems to be reward communities that are getting more housing built and, you know, have a negative incentive for those that aren't. So I think, you know, that obviously if you're, you have a challenging building environment, then it's, it could seem like punishing a municipality that isn't, you know, isn't doing enough, which, you know, it's, it's a whole conversation.
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