| 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 Special Note: Leo and Ken are focused on bringing economic development, regional growth, and workforce housing expertise together at the community level. We hope to help turn new state policy into actual projects - and ultimately into homes for the workers these communities need to sustain their businesses and economy. We are excited to be a part of this conversation. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 9/28/2026 4:46:23 PM | ||
| City Accepting Proposals for Affordable Housing Fund Project | ||
Leo's notes: By putting public resources and sites into play through a competitive process, cities like Eau Claire can reduce some of the uncertainty and upfront barriers that frequently prevent needed housing projects from advancing. We hope to see more municipalities take on the same approach to incentivizing development... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 1:47:13 PM | ||
| Nursing Home Operators in State Say Immigration Policy Changes Upended Years of Workforce Planning | ||
Leo's notes: For rural communities, employer-supported housing can be an important recruitment tool, particularly where rental options are scarce. But this experience also illustrates the risk employers assume when they step into housing themselves. Workforce housing strategies work best as part of a broader ecosystem—stable labor pipelines, community housing production and partnerships that leave new homes useful even as employer’s staffing changes occur. Ken Notes: Wisconsin will be significantly impacted by the elimination or reduction of immigrant programs. The dairy, meat, tourism, health care, and many other industries have relied heavily on foreign labor. This will also impact the housing market. We need to work on programs to improve the immigration workforce - not send them back. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 2:20:28 PM | ||
| High prices, fewer homes drive up Wisconsin home prices, drive down sales | ||
Ken Notes: We need to shift to lower cost entry level homes that are more affordable to our service and retail workers... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 3:20:14 PM | ||
| Wisconsin Workforce Housing Resources | ||
| 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: 9/28/2026 4:31:17 PM | ||
| HUD’s Innovative Housing Showcase returns to National Mall | ||
Leo's notes: HUD’s Innovative Housing Showcase puts a welcome spotlight on manufactured, modular, component-based and other construction approaches that could reduce the time and cost required to produce housing. For Wisconsin, the bigger question is how to move these ideas from demonstration projects into ordinary subdivisions and infill sites. Ken Notes: I have attended these in the past, and many innovative ideas have come from both the design and technology sides of this event. See the Cavco story for ideas... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 2:46:44 PM | ||
| Developer buys Milwaukee apartments to convert to affordable housing | ||
Leo's notes: Wisconsin needs more income-restricted housing, but preservation strategies should also consider the full housing continuum: affordability gains are strongest when chocies are expanded without inadvertently squeezing the moderate-income households. They inherently also struggle to find housing options. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 3:00:39 PM | ||
| Innovative Development Combines Crisis Stabilization, Affordable Housing | ||
Leo's notes: Stable housing can reduce barriers to hospital discharge, homelessness services and longer-term recovery, making projects like this part of a community’s health and social-service infrastructure. The challenge is the financing complexity: needing 13 funding sources to deliver 31 homes underscores how difficult it remains to build innovative affordable housing even when the community value is clear. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 2:56:02 PM | ||
| Waukesha County Board approves sale of former UW-Milwaukee campus for housing redevelopment | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 3:15:04 PM | ||
| Wisconsin names Foundation for Rural Housing interim provider in former NEWCAP counties | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 40 Date: 9/28/2026 3:13:06 PM | ||
| About Wisconsin Workforce Housing News (WWHNews.com) | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 8/13/2026 3:49:48 PM | ||
| List of Housing Resources | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 11 - Wk: 125 Date: 9/21/2026 5:55:51 PM |