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In a neighborhood otherwise reeling from violence and an opioid epidemic, the Kensington Corridor Trust recently welcomed its first commercial tenant. It's not the only community-owned commercial real estate project seeing success.
Every year, people from all over the world arrive in Alaska to escape conflict at home. Many of them have language barriers, and need assistance to find housing and jobs to build a new life.