Restrictive zoning policies shut door to affordable housing in some suburbs


Restrictive zoning policies shut door to affordable housing in some suburbs


Report finds Wisconsin needs to build up to 227K new housing units in next decade

Amy Kaiser is a recently divorced mother of two children. She`s 38-years-old, has a college degree and works at a bank in Elm Grove, earning what she describes as a lower-middle-class income...

...Kaiser wants to live in a home or duplex in Brookfield or Elm Grove. But she can`t afford it....

State is in the midst of severe housing shortage 

Kurt Paulsen, an urban planning professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, authored a 2019 study from the Wisconsin Realtors Association, titled "Falling Behind." The report found the state had a severe workforce housing shortage due to a decrease in housing construction, rising housing costs and a decline in homeownership...



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