Republican legislators take aim at local zoning rules to address Wisconsin’s housing shortage

This week, Stevens Point residents attended a city council meeting to fight against a neighbor’s efforts to build an extension to their garage so their ailing in-laws have a place to move in.

Earlier this year, Madison residents mounted a campaign against the city’s efforts to change zoning rules to allow higher density apartments near future stops on the soon-to-be-built Bus Rapid Transit line. Another effort in Madison would  stop a developer’s proposal for a new apartment complex, by attempting to get a historical landmark designation for a former credit union building because former President Harry Truman dedicated the structure in 1950....
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Ken Notes: NIMBY, preservation, margins, holding costs, segregation, transit, infrastructure, diversity, politics, and so much more suggest this is NOT a simple problem...