Communities receive $1.1M in housing aid

Published: March 23, 2013
Tags: affordable housing, Bashara Apartments, Dancing Oaks, Eagle Hills, HOME Rental Housing Development

Three communities in western Wisconsin will receive more than $1.1 million in federal aid to build affordable housing for low-income residents.

Board votes to give $2.3M for affordable housing projects 

Published: September 27, 2012
Tags: affordable housing, Board of Supervisors, loans, WHEDA

The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors voted to contribute more than $2.3 million to three affordable housing projects through 0 percent interest deferred loans.

Business leaders talk about roadblocks to jobs

Published: October 25, 2011
Tags: affordable housing, jobs, Sid Sorensen

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Business leaders say some of the roadblocks to creating more jobs in Wisconsin are regulatory hurdles and rising health care costs. A jobs forum in Wausau Monday afternoon included leaders from a variety of sectors including manufacturing, agriculture, real estate, construction and health care. Wausau homebuilder Sid Sorensen said his company [...]

Walker: WHEDA tax credits to create 1,200 construction jobs

Published: April 21, 2011
Tags: affordable housing, Kurt Sonnentag, Scott Walker, WHEDA, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority

The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority will distribute $17.1 million in Affordable Housing Tax Credits to create housing project developments across the state and create about 1,200 construction jobs, according to a news release from Gov. Scott Walker’s office. The tax credits will move forward 29 developments that will create 1,400 units of affordable [...]

Wis., Minn. cities rank on most affordable housing list

Published: September 23, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, Coldwell Banker, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Home Listing Report, Wausau

By Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The Twin Cities and three Wisconsin cities rank as some of the nation’s most affordable housing markets, according to report released Wednesday by Coldwell Banker. The Edina, Minn.-based realty firm’s conclusion is based on its survey of 18,000 four-bedroom, two-bathroom homes on coldwellbanker.com that were listed [...]

Hitting the wall

Published: August 24, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, Lisbon Avenue, Lisbon Terrace, Madison, Milwaukee, Stevens Construction

Oregon city eyes modular housing

Published: May 25, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, Guardian Real Estate Services, modular housing, multifamily housing, Native American Youth and Family Center, Portland Housing Bureau, urban renewal districts

Justin Carinci Dolan Media Newswires Portland, OR — A Lents neighborhood project would be Portland’s first use of modular construction in multifamily affordable housing. The Portland Housing Bureau has offered a $922,000 grant to the Holgate House project, which will provide nine units. The project represents the first foray into new construction for the Native [...]

WHEDA pursues hiring, contracting law

Published: April 20, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, Antonio Riley, bill, Commonwealth Development Partners, Dustin Bowie, hiring, minority-owned company, tax credit, WHEDA, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, women-owned company
Comments: 1

By Sean Ryan The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority is trying to prevent its hiring and contracting standards from disappearing when control of state government changes hands. A bill that received public hearings Monday and Tuesday requires the agency ensure minority- and women-owned companies work on projects that receive tax credits and that people [...]

More developers turn to WHEDA tax credits

Published: April 16, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, Bear Development LLC, Cal Schultz, Construction Management Associates, Great Lakes Capital Fund, Jerome Sullivan, Keystone Development LLC, Stephen Mills, WHEDA, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, Zohrab Khaligian
Comments: 2

By Sean Ryan In the past 25 years, Stephen Mills has built 1,800 condos and apartments without using housing tax credits. But this year, with plans for two projects in Kenosha, the principal of Bear Development LLC, said he cannot build anything without them. “I believe that today, in order to build certain multifamily communities, [...]

Money lacking for affordable housing

Published: March 18, 2010
Tags: affordable housing, Bill Perkins, Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, Linda Couch, Madison, National Low Income Housing Coalition, Peschel, TARP, Temporary Asset Relief Program, The Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development, Waukesha
Comments: 1

By Sean Ryan Affordable housing remains low on the public priority list, frustrating organizers who are trying to squeeze construction money out of all levels of government. “That’s been an issue that has concerned and troubled and plagued the affordable housing community for a long time — that there are other ways of spending public [...]