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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 6/1/2026 2:40:24 PM | ||
| Brewers team up to build new, affordable Habitat for Humanity Home | ||
Leo's notes: While much of Wisconsin's housing conversation focuses on large-scale multifamily developments, Habitat's work underscores the continued importance of attainable homeownership. Creating pathways for first-time buyers not only addresses housing affordability but also helps families build wealth, stabilize neighborhoods and strengthen long-term community investment. Solving the housing shortage will require both new rental housing and expanded opportunities for ownership across a range of income levels. Ken Notes: And the Brewers are four and a half games up in the NL Central, so building lower cost homes statistically improves your chances of a championship season, spread the word! | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 23 Date: 6/1/2026 1:58:44 PM | ||
| Kolbe Completes New Multifamily Development in Wisconsin | ||
Leo's notes: Built steps from its own factory, Kolbe Windows & Doors has completed a 102-unit workforce-housing development in Wausau. This is the kind of leadership our communities need—an employer who treats housing not as someone else's problem, but as a direct investment in its people. When businesses build homes for the workforce that sustains them, families find stability, hiring gets easier, and Wisconsin grows stronger for it... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 23 Date: 6/1/2026 2:01:51 PM | ||
| Wisconsin’s rural communities are finding creative solutions to the housing crisis | ||
Leo’s notes: While eight units alone won't solve Door County's housing shortage, converting underutilized downtown spaces into housing creates new opportunities without requiring additional land or major infrastructure investments. As communities across Wisconsin search for attainable housing solutions, adaptive reuse projects like this offer a practical model for adding housing while strengthening downtown business districts and preserving community character. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 23 Date: 6/1/2026 2:25:18 PM | ||
| Largest private affordable housing project in Wisconsin offers hope for more like it | ||
Leo's notes: The Corliss demonstrates that addressing Wisconsin’s housing deficit will require projects at a scale rarely seen in the state. While smaller infill developments remain important, large mixed-income and affordable housing communities can deliver hundreds of units at once and create the density needed to support neighborhood amenities, transit, and economic growth. The project also underscores a key reality facing communities statewide: solving the housing shortage increasingly depends on strong public-private partnerships, flexible local policies, and creative financing structures that help bridge the gap between development costs and housing affordability. Ken Notes: Now we need equity building ownership options like small homes and condos. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 23 Date: 6/1/2026 2:17:07 PM | ||
| 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: 4/6/2026 9:26:43 PM | ||
| Affordable housing over Sturgeon Bay arcade opens with ceremony, tours | ||
Leo’s notes: While eight units alone won't solve Door County's housing shortage, converting underutilized downtown spaces into housing creates new opportunities without requiring additional land or major infrastructure investments. As communities across Wisconsin search for attainable housing solutions, adaptive reuse projects like this offer a practical model for adding housing while strengthening downtown business districts and preserving community character. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 23 Date: 6/1/2026 2:05:47 PM | ||
| Milwaukee County investment helped bring Whitefish Bay development to life | ||
Leo's notes: The Hampton illustrates how suburban communities are increasingly becoming part of the affordable housing solution. Milwaukee County’s willingness to support housing development beyond the urban core recognizes that housing affordability is a regional issue, and that expanding housing choices in high-opportunity communities can improve economic mobility, workforce access, and long-term community health. A model worth replicating outside of other major WI cities. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 23 Date: 6/1/2026 2:21:16 PM | ||
| Milwaukee Area Homes Are Least Affordable in Midwest | ||
Leo's notes: In the Milwaukee region, the median home price has climbed to 5.2 times the median household income, while Madison now sits at 5.0 times income—both among the highest ratios in the Midwest. Historically, a healthy housing market hovered closer to a 3:1 ratio. This data reinforces a reality increasingly visible across Wisconsin: the housing challenge is no longer confined to low-income households. When home prices consistently outpace wage growth, communities risk losing teachers, healthcare workers, tradespeople, and young families who form the backbone of local economies. Expanding housing supply across all price points—including starter homes, workforce housing, and attainable ownership opportunities—will be essential if Wisconsin hopes to remain competitive and economically resilient in the decades ahead. Ken Notes: We have many neighborhoods in the region that are very exclusive and are not focused on more affordable housing for the workforce that provides the lifestyle these homeowners want to enjoy (i.e restaurants, hotels, recreation, retails services, not to mention the very workers in the businesses that created the wealth in the first place. We must start building neighborhoods for these service and retail and service workers or we will fail our children and grandchildren. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 23 Date: 6/1/2026 2:37:56 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 3/23/2026 9:49:04 PM | ||
| List of Housing Resources | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 11 - Wk: 125 Date: 9/2/2025 7:30:59 PM |