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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 1/26/2026 12:04:58 PM | ||
| Madison unveils twin homes in affordable housing push | ||
Leo`s notes: Madison’s Owl Creek project is a reminder that solving the housing crisis isn’t only about building more units — it’s about building the right kinds of homes. By turning vacant city-owned lots into permanently affordable duplex-style homes, the city and the MACLT are creating real pathways to first-time home-ownership, equity-building, and long-term neighborhood stability. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 10:35:21 AM | ||
| Trump pushes for lower rates and ban on investor home purchases in bid to make homes more affordable | ||
Leo`s notes: pushing mortgage rates lower, capping credit card interest, and restricting large institutional investors from buying single-family homes — reflect a growing bipartisan recognition that affordability is now a structural economic problem, not a cyclical one. While lower rates may help at the margins and curbing investor competition could ease pressure in select markets, these measures alone won’t resolve a housing shortage built over a decade of underproduction. The moment underscores a central truth: affordability requires aligning finance, land use, and construction at scale, not relying on any single lever to fix a deeply constrained market. Ken Notes: Imagine an administration focused on affordable housing, lower interest and tax rates for the 30 or so million who provide retail and service labor making $16 to $22 per hour... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 10:51:46 AM | ||
| FHLBank Chicago Launches 2026 Downpayment Plus® Grant Programs, Unlocking $28 Million to Support Homebuyers in Illinois and Wisconsin | ||
Leo`s notes: For many working families across Wisconsin and Illinois, the barrier to homeownership isn’t monthly payments so much as the upfront cash required to get in the door. In a tight housing market with limited supply, pairing new construction with smart, targeted tools like these is exactly how communities turn aspiration into opportunity and renters into long-term stakeholders. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 10:30:49 AM | ||
| Developer Cinnaire Closes $134M Fund for Midwest Affordable Housing | ||
Leo`s notes: Across Wisconsin and the Midwest, the affordable housing story is no longer about isolated projects—it’s about scale, speed, and systems that work. The lesson is clear: affordability doesn’t come from a single tool, but from stacking smart financing, flexible land use, and long-term partnerships that treat housing as essential infrastructure for economic stability and community health. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 10:55:11 AM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 8/21/2025 12:05:28 PM | ||
| How to Fill Empty Offices With Co-Living Residents | ||
Leo`s notes: Converting office buildings into low-cost, co-living housing isn’t a radical idea. With construction costs far lower than traditional conversions and rents that working people can actually afford, office-to-housing reuse offers cities a chance to revive downtowns while meeting urgent human needs. The real barriers aren’t demand or design — they’re outdated zoning rules, financing hesitation, and political caution. If we are serious about affordability, we must stop treating empty offices as symbols of past prosperity and start treating them as the housing opportunity hiding in plain sight. Ken Notes: We are not sure if this is a winning solution, but we are sure that what we are doing now is not working. We need smaller, shared amenities, co-branded with existing or new projects, adaptive reuse, access to health resources, safe living environments, and other outside the box thinking. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 10:26:06 AM | ||
| Report: Moderated Housing Market Performance for December and 2025 | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 11:23:05 AM | ||
| Government needs more than reform. Here`s how WI can lead. | Opinion | ||
Ken Notes: A good deal of this plan has little if any chance of real support but an entity focused on housing makes some sense. What we really need is a bipartisan advocacy group of developers, cities and towns, builders, banks and others to advocate for building truly affordable homes and neighborhoods. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 11:45:15 AM | ||
| Historic lots, modern hurdles: Counting down city`s challenging sites | ||
Leo`s notes: With housing costs rising and workforce shortages tightening, residential development — especially mixed-income and workforce housing — may finally align market reality with community need. If Milwaukee wants long-vacant sites to move from paper concepts to poured foundations, prioritizing housing over aspirational but fragile hotel deals could be the shift that makes progress stick. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 5 Date: 1/26/2026 10:11:32 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 |