Alaska State Housing Authority v. Sipary

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

This appeal presents a dispute over the right to fire insurance proceeds received by Alaska State Housing Authority (ASHA) following the destruction of two houses. The houses were being purchased from ASHA under conditional sales contracts, one by James Sipary, the other by Henry Sookiayak. Sipary and Sookiayak were participants in a program aimed at alleviating housing problems in remote areas of Alaska. Under the program, ASHA supplied building materials and supervised the construction of over 200 houses in native villages and sold the houses to participants.…