Photos: Susitna Square affordable housing complex in Anchorage

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Susitna Square on Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015. Susitna Square is an affordable housing project and has 18 units. Tenants will be those who make 60 percent of the Anchorage Area Median Income. The units also include solar powered hot water and electric systems.

An 18-unit townhouse project completed last week for low-income Anchorage renters is almost full. In fact, even before construction stopped on the Susitna Square project, 54 people had applied for the homes. And Alaska Housing Finance Corporation officials say another soon-to-be-finished 70-unit complex won't be nearly big enough to accommodate the thousands of people it has on its waiting list.

But it's a start, according to Bryan Butcher, AHFC executive director and CEO.

Read more: New low-income housing complex opens in Anchorage