| Wisconsin Workforce Housing News | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 3/9/2026 2:45:18 PM | ||
| New Peshtigo workforce housing project aims to grow the small town | ||
Leo’s notes: Peshtigo’s proposed 30-home workforce housing development highlights a challenge shared by many rural manufacturers: jobs exist, but housing shortages limit workforce growth. By using city-owned land and pursuing state grants to lower development costs, local leaders are aligning housing supply with economic expansion. For small towns competing for talent, housing is economic development. Ken Notes: So about 200K per unit. I would love to see a state funded program allowing communities to buy land and install infrastructure then "front" the lots and improvements to developers for homes sold to owner occupants for under 200K. I can not think of a more productive way to invest a 4 Billion dollar surplus. That could create almost 100,000 homes for our service and retail workers. Not to mention attracting new workers into our communities. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:20:27 PM | ||
| County announces $1 million in housing grants | ||
Leo’s notes: Dane County’s $1 million PRO Housing grant program targets a key barrier to workforce housing: local regulations that slow or limit development. By helping municipalities modernize zoning and permitting systems, the initiative focuses on structural reforms that expand supply across the region. Streamlining local rules is emerging as one of the most effective housing tools | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:24:20 PM | ||
| Housing shortage impacting northeast Wisconsin, industry leaders say | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:37:35 PM | ||
| Report: Zoning approvals in area communities can add hundreds of days to development timelines | ||
Leo’s notes: As shortages push prices higher, the pace of local approvals is emerging as a key factor in expanding workforce housing supply. Regulatory efficiency is becoming a central housing strategy. Zoning reform and approval process (and timelines) must continue to be evaluated for real change to occur. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:33:51 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 8/21/2025 12:05:28 PM | ||
| Dells Mayor Highlights Growth | ||
Leo’s notes: As hospitality jobs expand and more workers choose to live year-round in the region, local leaders are recognizing that workforce housing is essential to sustaining the visitor economy. In tourism markets, housing supply increasingly determines economic capacity | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:27:03 PM | ||
| Milwaukee area embraces backyard homes, but not without debate | ||
Leo’s notes: Incremental housing solutions are becoming increasingly important in the workforce housing puzzle, particularly in well-established neighborhoods like Wauwatosa in Milwaukee. No amount of NIMBYism should outweigh the upside of these solutions. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:33:06 PM | ||
| Wisconsin’s forgotten homes: Takeaways from investigating manufactured housing | ||
Ken Notes: We should recreate the statutes that govern both the old mobile home parks and newer options for denser lots allowing for manufactured homes. Also the practice of buying parks and then ignoring the tenants and using the income as a cash cow is the newest form of slumlords and we allow it to happen. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:44:21 PM | ||
| Milwaukee`s downtown development boom stalls: What`s holding up major projects? | ||
Leo’s notes: When financing gaps, market shifts, or construction costs delay projects, planned housing supply never materializes. For cities facing shortages, keeping approved developments moving from paper to production is becoming a critical priority. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 11 Date: 3/9/2026 2:28:39 PM | ||
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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 |