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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 6/22/2026 6:11:24 PM | ||
| Gov. Evers, WHEDA Announce New Allocation Plan for Housing Tax Credit, Continue Efforts to Expand Access to Safe, Reliable, Affordable Housing | ||
Leo's notes: As demand for affordable housing continues to outpace supply, how tax credits are allocated can be just as important as the amount of funding available. Wisconsin's updated approach reflects a growing recognition that housing challenges vary by community, requiring flexible tools that support both urban and rural development. Strategic allocation policies can help ensure scarce housing resources are directed toward projects that maximize long-term impact, leverage partnerships, and address the workforce housing shortages that increasingly affect economic growth across the state. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 26 Date: 6/22/2026 5:25:22 PM | ||
| America’s teachers are being priced out of their communities ? these cities are building subsidized housing to lure them back | ||
Leo's notes: The emergence of teacher housing programs highlights how deeply housing affordability now affects essential community services. When educators, healthcare workers, first responders, and other middle-income professionals can no longer afford to live where they work, housing shortages become workforce shortages. While employer-assisted and occupation-specific housing programs can provide targeted relief, they also serve as a reminder that broader housing supply challenges require community-wide solutions that expand attainable housing options for the entire workforce. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 26 Date: 6/22/2026 5:31:00 PM | ||
| Largest private affordable housing project in Wisconsin offers hope for more like it | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 26 Date: 6/22/2026 6:10:12 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 4/6/2026 9:26:43 PM | ||
| As the nation’s housing market loosens, Wausau’s stays stuck | ||
Leo's notes: Unlike high-growth metros where rising rents can justify new construction, many regional communities face a "missing middle" financing gap where workforce housing is needed most but remains difficult to build. The discussion around regional housing funds, public-private partnerships, and innovative TIF structures reflects a broader reality that solving Wisconsin's housing shortage will require not only more development, but new financing tools tailored to local market conditions. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 26 Date: 6/22/2026 5:23:53 PM | ||
| Marshfield’s historic Weinbrenner building could be turned into affordable housing | ||
Leo's notes: Adaptive reuse projects like the Weinbrenner redevelopment demonstrate how housing and economic development goals can align. Across Wisconsin, former schools, factories, offices, and commercial buildings represent untapped opportunities to add housing while preserving community character and revitalizing downtown districts. As construction costs remain high and developable land becomes more constrained, converting underutilized buildings into housing may become an increasingly important part of the workforce housing solution. Ken Notes: We should be able to us modular plumbing, electrical, and HVAC units to reduce costs. As proposed we are loo kin at north of 300K per unit. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 26 Date: 6/22/2026 6:04:04 PM | ||
| Third Home Pricing Increase Backed For Workforce Housing Project | ||
Leo's notes: Door County officials have advanced a proposal to increase the county’s property tax levy dedicated to workforce housing, providing additional support for the local Workforce Housing Loan Program.Their continued investment signals an important shift in how communities are approaching housing challenges: local leaders increasingly recognize it as critical economic infrastructure that supports employers, tourism, healthcare, education, and community sustainability. Financing tools alone will not solve housing shortages, but dedicated local funding programs can help bridge development gaps. Ken Notes: Door County could and should become a model for affordable workforce housing neighborhoods. They need housing for service and tourism workers as well as health care, education, child care, seniors, public safety and more. Using great design, modular homes, denser plots, shared amenities, and the new state TIF laws every tourist community could develop a great neighborhood for their workforce... And the best part is that wealthy Chicago tourists could help pay for these new neighborhoods. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 26 Date: 6/22/2026 5:54:30 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 3/23/2026 9:49:04 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 11 - Wk: 125 Date: 9/2/2025 7:30:59 PM |