7 Rivers Alliance and Chris Hardie brought leaders from the private sector, public sector, education sector, and economic development together Monday September to to begin working on a Regional Housing Consortium project focused on Workforce Housing. The group will also look at workforce recruitment and retention over the next 6 months.
The group established a 7 Rivers Housing Consortium, a results-oriented group
with representation from real estate agents, developers, builders,
landlords, businesses, local government, economic developers and
nonprofit agencies dedicated to creating a regional unified vision
amongst stakeholders on how best to meet the need for workforce housing
in the region.
This group will review efforts in the region that have already engaged in housing discussions or housing studies plus additional data as needed to create a regional footprint that will concentrate on:
1) aligning existing housing supply and new construction with employer hiring needs2) expediting construction of Workforce Housing3) targeting market awareness of housing options and benefits
The goal is to engage key stakeholders within the regional footprint to participate in a face-to-face meeting to further define the Consortium and ensure the right voices are around the table as the process continues.
Helping lead the conversation was Jim Wood and Kennan Wood representing Competitive Wisconsin, Inc. (CWI) a nonpartisan consortium of agriculture, business, education and labor leaders in Wisconsin who work together to focus attention on the state’s competitiveness.
Ken Notes: Leo and I are actually participating in this project. We were happy to see developers at the table and a good representation of stakeholders from a variety of public and private entities.
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