| Wisconsin Workforce Housing News | ||
Community Updates, News Stories, Best Practices, Resources, and other data supporting the development of affordable housing for the citizens of Wisconsin in every city and region in the State. Please consider partnering with us and sharing your story | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 4/21/2025 1:38:28 PM | ||
| Mayo living space approved by La Crosse council, needs additional action for zoning mismatch | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:36:03 AM | ||
| Bipartisan bill seeks to expand housing tax credits in rural Wisconsin | ||
Ken Notes: What we need is a fund that allows communities to buy and provide infrastructure to new development and infill, then make the land available to developers deferring holding costs until the property sells. Communities would then either buy more land or repay the state. The community could plan for density, affordability, neighborhood design, mixed use, amenities... If you are wondering if this would work, industrial parks were built this way. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:35:38 AM | ||
| Three-Way Standoff on Workforce Housing in Milwaukee | ||
Ken Notes: We need leadership from the state on this issues. Cities are trying their best but without direction they are struggling. Remember the basics Land, Infrastructure, Design, Size, Density, and Cost... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:21:37 AM | ||
| Brown County board gives Green Bay $3.5M for fire station, affordable housing project | ||
Ken Notes: Mixing public use and affordable development is a great idea. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:23:49 AM | ||
| Wisconsin Workforce Housing Resources | ||
| Nate Notes: to be included as a Workforce Housing resource email us a link and a brief note to: wwhnews.com@gmail.com... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 10/11/2024 10:12:25 AM | ||
| Affordable housing complex approved for Odana Road strip mall | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:09:11 AM | ||
| Baraboo plans to renovate and expand low-income housing | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:13:57 AM | ||
| Green Bay`s Red Smith neighborhood development to move forward, with a cap of 160 apartments | ||
Ken Notes: I say this every week, if you refuse to live near your barista you need to make your own damn coffee. We need more mixed neighborhoods and communities that house the workforce that sustains them. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:29:53 AM | ||
| Bipartisan housing programs have little to show. Legislators are working on fixes. | ||
Ken Notes: My "Fix"... Lend money to communities to buy land, design and zone for affordability, install infrastructure, solicit developers/builders to build smaller affordable homes, defer land and infrastructure cost until closing, then repay the city who either reinvests or returns funds to the state... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 25 - Wk: 17 Date: 4/21/2025 10:43:31 AM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 12/27/2024 1:52:23 PM | ||
| List of Housing Resources | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 11 - Wk: 125 Date: 11/25/2024 1:31:55 PM |