How should Dane County address its housing crisis? A resident survey may hold the key.

Dane County, with assistance from the private sector, is conducting a survey that will help it determine how to tackle the region’s ongoing housing affordability crisis and shortage in the coming months and years.

County residents from all income brackets and backgrounds are invited to take the Community Housing Survey until Feb. 9, said Olivia Parry, senior planner with the Dane County Department of Planning and Development, who is overseeing the study’s marketing and promotion.

Participants can anonymously take the survey, which is available in English, Spanish and Hmong, online or by mail. To request a paper copy of the survey, participants can call 608-301-5465 or email plandev@countyofdane.com with their name and address, Parry said. The survey takes seven to 10 minutes to complete...