Milwaukee wants 1 million people and more housing. One solution is zoning changes

Milwaukee might soon change its zoning code to encourage development of small apartment buildings and apartments in commercial areas ? growing the city`s affordable housing supply.

Those revisions, which need approval from the Common Council and Mayor Cavalier Johnson, would be a first step towards Johnson`s vision of eventually increasing Milwaukee`s population to 1 million.

Smaller rental developments also will likely need public financing help, housing industry experts say, as well as building code changes. But zoning to promote such projects must happen first, they say.

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