affordable housing

After more than a decade leading the Northwoods Alliance for Temporary Housing, executive director Tammy Modic is leaving the organization. She reflects on how housing in the Northwoods has changed during her tenure.

The Rhinelander City Council Planning Commission has approved a proposal to convert a Rhinelander motel into affordable, low-income housing. The conversion would add 30 apartment units to the city’s housing stock.

The vandalism makes a public spectacle of a landlord’s dispute with a renter he’s trying to evict and also shines a light on the need for affordable housing in the city.

Climbing interest rates are starting to cool the blazing housing market in cities across the country. But in places like Ironwood, where the housing stock is cheaper and many buyers can afford to pay in cash, interest rates have less of an effect. So, Ironwood is getting creative.

Housing in northern Wisconsin is in such short supply that some people turn down jobs in the area because they cannot find a place to live. Employers have come up with a solution — convert vacant motels into affordable housing.

Members of the Resilient Homes Michigan coalition are looking to attract workers back to the state by proposing $1.6 billion in state spending.

Despite two years of government initiatives designed to provide financial aid and support to housing insecure residents, Wisconsin is still facing a shortage of affordable housing.

States and localities are increasingly tapping federal funds to help finance efforts to build more affordable housing, repair dilapidated units or reduce their homeless numbers.

The report identified a need for both affordable and market rate housing, even though the city’s population is declining.

As people move to northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, property values rise. This is great news for homeowners ready to sell, but for those in need of affordable housing, rising prices can create hardship.