Comment: Would you rather have people with no background and no knowledge of the issues helping to shape technical policies that impact the development of our economy? CIHA is one of the main reasons there is still decent housing opportunities available in Anchorage for lower income families. What's their "conflict of interest"? Supporting policies that make this work easier? Better than conflicts that support large lot, single family housing with high density/mixed use excluded, which is what pretty much every private developer in this town seems to want. 

Finally, what is the "lack of transparency" of which you speak and how does that relate to the subject of this article?