>>2604685>>2604749It's a rural northern Alaska town that needs the population to justify getting school funding, if it's an isolated community it is probably a lot easier to get the families settled in, than bussing the kids the 60 miles to the next big town sort of deal.
Lots of governments are starting to do programs like this, it's been a well established practice in the North of Canada that anything north of the 60th parallel gets you some sort of government funding because shit like gasoline is twice as expensive in winter, etc.
If it's an older mining style town, those 2 houses they've got might just be empty and sitting there anyways. I lived up in Northern BC in a house that was built in the 1930's town had ghost houses, since the population had shrunk so much.
