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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 12/1/2025 12:08:30 PM | ||
| Western Wisconsin Health gives land to SCV Habitat, supporting affordable housing | ||
Leo’s notes: Western Wisconsin Health’s land donation to St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity is more than a real-estate transfer — it’s a clear acknowledgment that housing is healthcare. By providing land for future Habitat homes in Baldwin, WWH is investing directly in community well-being and supporting the workforce that keeps rural health systems running. Research cited by the CDC underscores the impact: families who secure safe, affordable housing see fewer emergency visits, more primary care engagement, and better long-term health outcomes. As the median age of first-time homebuyers climbs to 40 and affordability pressures grow, partnerships like this offer a blueprint for how health systems and housing organizations can work together to build stability, resilience, and healthier communities across western Wisconsin. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 49 Date: 12/1/2025 10:55:19 AM | ||
| How a Madison community land trust provides affordable housing | ||
Leo’s notes: Through a model that separates land ownership from the home itself, MACLT ensures that every public dollar invested in affordability stays in the community forever — keeping homes attainable for families earning $50,000–$80,000. With new leadership in place and projects underway at Voit Farms and beyond, the land trust is expanding missing-middle options, supporting first-time buyers, and reducing displacement pressures by freezing land costs for future generations. In a moment when stability is increasingly out of reach, community land trusts offer one of the most durable pathways to affordable home ownership and long-term neighborhood resilience. Ken Notes: It is the land and land owner the controls the development. Working with communities, Land Trusts could solve much of the workforce housing issues in the State by developing small clusters of homes, nice small well built architecture, great amenities and public space. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 49 Date: 12/1/2025 11:07:57 AM | ||
| With offer of ‘zero rent,’ tiny home villages extend housing – and hope – for homeless veterans | ||
Ken Notes: While our focus is workforce housing, solving the homeless issue should begin with Veterans. Imagine an amendment to the GI bill that states that GI`s will be able to find affordable housing in the US. Wisconsin has some working examples of these "villages". | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 49 Date: 12/1/2025 11:27:40 AM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 8/21/2025 12:05:28 PM | ||
| Developer plans 40 rental homes in Amani area if it can obtain tax credits | ||
Leo’s notes: Milwaukee is taking another meaningful step toward rebuilding housing stability in long-disinvested neighborhoods, granting Emem Group exclusive negotiating rights on 40 city-owned parcels in Amani for a proposed affordable rental development. If awarded federal low-income housing tax credits this spring, the project would bring new homes to an area that has seen decades of vacancy and disinvestment — with long-term affordability requirements built in. At the same time, the city is launching a pilot to spur “missing middle” homeownership by providing lots and subsidies for replicable duplex, townhome, and small-scale infill designs. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 49 Date: 12/1/2025 10:57:01 AM | ||
| Partnership brings two new affordable homes to Sister Bay | ||
Leo’s notes: These are the seventh and eighth homes completed by the Door County Housing Partnership — and part of what could become a 10-home affordable subdivision in Sister Bay. Using the community land trust model, the partnership keeps homes permanently affordable by retaining ownership of the land and selling the homes at below-market prices, supported by grants and donor subsidies. Families build equity responsibly while ensuring the homes remain attainable for future income-eligible buyers. With demand rising, a dollar-for-dollar match campaign is now underway to help build two more homes in 2026 — a clear reminder that sustained community investment is essential to expanding the region’s long-term affordable housing supply. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 49 Date: 12/1/2025 11:12:16 AM | ||
| Boomers could help fix Wisconsin`s housing market | ||
Ken Notes: For boomers to vacate the nice affordable homes they live in now, there will have to be nicer homes and communities to move into. We can do this but we need to plan and design neighborhoods that are attractive to those willing to move. Florida and Arizona Have been doing this for decades... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 49 Date: 12/1/2025 11:33:49 AM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 12/27/2024 1:52:23 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 11 - Wk: 125 Date: 9/2/2025 12:30:59 PM |