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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 3/19/2026 9:40:55 PM | ||
| La Crosse County Farm development inches forward, despite pushback from West Salem | ||
Leo's notes: As an advocate for housing affordability and reform, this development underscores a familiar challenge across Wisconsin: large-scale sites capable of meaningfully addressing housing shortages often encounter local resistance before planning even begins. With La Crosse County projected to need roughly 4,900 new housing units over the next decade, projects like the County Farm property could play a critical role in regional supply — but only if local governments, school districts and residents are brought into the conversation early and collaboratively. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 12 Date: 3/19/2026 9:39:57 PM | ||
| Construction underway on downtown Madison workforce housing development | ||
Leo's notes: Construction has begun on The Bankston Apartments in downtown Madison, a 40-unit workforce housing project developed through a partnership between SSM Health and Madison Development Corporation. Projects like this highlight an important shift: employers, nonprofits and community lenders stepping in where the market alone cannot meet workforce housing needs. If communities want to remain economically competitive and livable, expanding housing options for the workers who keep cities running must remain a central priority. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 12 Date: 3/19/2026 9:27:09 PM | ||
| Governors Applaud Progress on Housing Affordability | ||
Leo's notes: Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon are urging stronger federal action on housing as Congress considers the “21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.” They also highlighted the importance of streamlining permitting and ensuring solutions remain state-led and locally driven. The message is clear: expanding housing supply is essential not only for affordability, but for workforce mobility, economic competitiveness and long-term community stability. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 12 Date: 3/19/2026 9:28:42 PM | ||
| Plans Approved for 39-Unit Affordable Housing Apartment | ||
Leos’ notes: Sturgeon Bay is advancing an affordable housing development after site plan approval for the project’s first phase. Supported by Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, the project illustrates the reality housing developers face today — careful design adjustments and cost controls are often required just to keep affordable housing financially feasible. For communities like Door County, where workforce housing shortages continue to grow, projects like this represent an essential step toward restoring balance in the local housing market. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 12 Date: 3/19/2026 9:32:32 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 8/21/2025 7:05:28 PM | ||
| Central Wisconsin housing summit aims to spark solutions April 15 | ||
Leos’ notes: A great initiative that will bring together community leaders, developers and lenders to focus on practical solutions to housing supply, affordability and workforce development. The event will feature new insights from the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission’s Regional Housing Study and a keynote from UW–Madison urban planning professor Kurt Paulsen. A great opportunity to move beyond discussion and build coordinated regional action to increase housing development and reinvestment. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 12 Date: 3/19/2026 9:30:35 PM | ||
| Madison officials float more financing tools to expand affordable housing supply | ||
Leo's notes: Madison officials are expanding their use of Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) as part of the city’s Housing Forward initiative, which aims to create 15,000 new homes by 2030. City leaders say tools like strategic land acquisition, transit-oriented development and flexible TIF policy will be essential to closing the housing gap. Proposed state changes allowing longer TIF use for affordable housing and stacking multiple financing programs could significantly increase development feasibility. The pattern remains clear- solving the housing shortage will require creative use of public financing tools alongside private investment. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 12 Date: 3/19/2026 9:36:10 PM | ||
| Affordable housing bill headed to US Senate | ||
Leo's notes: The U.S. Senate is advancing bipartisan legislation aimed at boosting affordable housing construction and addressing the nation’s estimated 4 million home shortage. In summary, the proposal includes incentives to increase housing supply, streamline permitting, expand financing through federal block grants, and raise loan limits for multifamily housing. The bill also proposes limits on large institutional investors purchasing single-family homes, reflecting growing concern about investor competition in the housing market. This effort signals rare bipartisan recognition that increasing housing supply must be central to addressing affordability and easing pressure on first-time buyers. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 12 Date: 3/19/2026 9:34:05 PM | ||
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