Bipartisan housing programs have little to show. Legislators are working on fixes.

In 2023, state lawmakers created three workforce housing programs they said would boost house construction around Wisconsin.

They didn’t work as well as legislators hoped.

Out of a total allocation of $475 million, only $16.4 million has made it to development projects to date...

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Ken Notes: My "Fix"... Lend money to communities to buy land, design and zone for affordability, install infrastructure, solicit developers/builders to build smaller affordable homes, defer land and infrastructure cost until closing, then repay the city who either reinvests or returns funds to the state...