News from the Partnership

Please join us for A Home for Everyone conference, July 19th and 20th, in Oshkosh. We will continue our advocacy efforts and hear from top experts in the field. Confirmed keynote speakers include: Jeff Olivet, Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; Mark Horvath, Founder of Invisible People; and Helen Shiller, former […]

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our founder and affordable housing champion, Bill Perkins. Bill founded Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development in 1985 with the help of Governor Tony Earl, and he served as its executive director for 28 years. Bill’s passion, love, and drive for helping “the little guy” […]

  The Wisconsin Collaborative for Affordable Housing presents A Home For Everyone Conference: An opportunity for affordable housing professionals to convene, connect and collaborate on top issues facing the industry. This year’s focus will be advocacy. Visit A Home For Everyone for more information and to register.

Homeowners in need of help with home repairs, improvements related to medical needs, or who have critical home performance issues can now access zero percent interest loans to help them complete the work that needs to be done. Certain households who have residents 55 or older can also access repair grants. This funding, provided by […]

The Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development is pleased to announce that, after an external search, Todd Mandel has been hired to serve as executive director, effective April 26, 2021. WPHD delivers affordable housing throughout the state with a focus on creating and preserving single-family homeownership and affordable rental opportunities. Over the past ten years, WPHD […]

Our friends at Mad City Dream Homes have featured WPHD’s work with Operation Fresh Start – read all about it here.

The National Low Income Housing Coalition just released their annual Out of Reach report, which documents the significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing across the United States. The report’s central statistic, the Housing Wage, is an estimate of the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest […]

WPHD is a member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. NLIHC is an advocacy group that seeks reforms so that the lowest income individuals and families have access to affordable housing. They produce data and information that is used all over the United States to advocate for affordable housing. For example, they do a […]

Recent data has indicated that since 2000, rents across the United States have INCREASED by 13 percent in real dollars. Over the same period, income has gone DOWN by 11 percent. So it is not surprising that families are having more trouble affordable their rent. And, that the need for affordable housing has grown, despite […]