When Christina Henderson was a medical student in 2022, she found herself flying across the country to complete a required rotation at Duke University in North Carolina. The logistics were challenging. Without a car and clear support to find short-term housing, Henderson ended up in a Craigslist rental as her last resort. Then one night, Henderson said, she awoke to a cockroach crawling across her stomach.
“I was kind of trapped there for the month,” she said. “I was like, ‘OK, well, I have nowhere to go because I have no housing.’”
Henderson brushed off the experience, hoping it was a fluke. But after matching into residency at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, she overheard a medical student lamenting about their housing struggles and something clicked.
“The lightbulb went off in my head,” Henderson said. “I realized I think this is a nationwide issue and then really started to look into it from there.”
The moment inspired Reliable Residence, a startup aimed at supporting short-term and traveling health care professionals and students in Madison with fully furnished housing. Henderson and Tyler Henry, her co-founder and chief financial officer, launched the business as an LLC this year....
Leo’s notes: Reliable Residence is meeting a critical need at the intersection of health care and housing. As Madison’s tight rental market strains access to short-term housing, this homegrown effort provides a lifeline for medical professionals who keep our hospitals running. Supporting workforce housing solutions like this isn`t just good policy—it’s essential infrastructure for a healthy, functioning community.
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