Affordable housing legislation may not sit well in some Wisconsin communities

 Some communities may welcome the new tools and processes proposed by the bills. Others may view this as infringing on the control they now have over the types of housing within their borders

A series of related bills introduced in the Wisconsin State Assembly last week, that would force municipalities to take steps to increase their stock of affordable housing, may find resistance in affluent pockets of rural Dane County.

Given the outcry in Cambridge in the past couple of years over affordable housing proposals, which led several developers to abandon plans for apartments and a neighborhood extension of small starter homes, we’ll be closely tracking the local response to these bills...