In urban Alaska homeowners are expected to have insurance or pay the cost of disasters like this themselves.   The disaster declaration....at best...would only help the homeowner get loans that they would have to pay back.   In rural Alaska communities that pay no property taxes expect government to relocate entire villages, at costs in the hundreds of millions, completely free to their citizens.  

Yesterday ADN had an article about how one village relocating had a $300k house built and given to them (the first of many).     Think the State/Feds are going to build free houses for the MatSu homeowners?    All Alaskans should be treated equally.