Both the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly plan to meet in floor sessions on Tuesday — one of only a handful of days the state Legislature is expected to be in session in 2020.

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The construction of new homes surged in December to the highest level seen in 13 years, capping a year in which falling mortgage rates and a strong labor market helped lift the prospects of the housing industry.

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A bill introduced this week would bring Wisconsin law in-line with federal standards that encourage housing authorities to develop projects that offer affordable units along with commercial and market-rate space.

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Gov Tim Walz proposed Thursday that the state borrow $276 million to invest in safe and affordable housing projects throughout Minnesota.

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A solution to homelessness, say Anne Franz and Gabrielle Clowdus, has to go beyond simply providing homes.

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For decades, land-use regulation throughout the U.S. has stressed having single-family houses on large lots. This approach has priced many people out of the quintessential American dream: Owning a home. It also has promoted suburban sprawl – a pattern of low-density, car-dependent development that has dominated growth at the edges of urban areas since the end of World War II.

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A small house along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan fell down a sandy bluff in an area plagued by erosion.

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With steadily rising costs still a big barrier to the construction of affordable housing, construction professionals are turning more and more to a relatively new remedy: volumetric modular construction, process in which most of the work takes place in a factory setting, leaving little to do on-site.

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U.S. sales of newly built homes increased 1.3% in November from the prior month, a sign that low mortgage rates are pushing up purchases as well as prices.

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The construction of new homes increased again in November while the number of applications for building permits rose to the highest level seen in 12 years, both encouraging signs of a rebound in the housing market.

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