by Natalie Eilbert / Green Bay Press-Gazette, WisconsinWatch.orgMarch 30, 2022 This piece was produced for the NEW News Lab, a local news collaboration in Northeast Wisconsin. Microsoft is providing financial support to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region for this initiative. When she attended East High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin, […]
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Wisconsin groups offer new ‘cookbook’ to spur affordable housing development; here’s the recipe
This piece was produced for the NEW News Lab, a local news collaboration in Northeast Wisconsin. Microsoft is providing financial support to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region for this initiative. Wisconsin has a new recipe to increase affordable housing development thanks to a “cookbook” released in February. “Enabling […]
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‘It’s all or nothing’: A small pay bump can cut benefits for Wisconsin workers
By Nusaiba Mizan, Green Bay Press-Gazette Owning a home once seemed like “an impossible dream” to Jaleesa Gray, though she began thinking about when her son was born a decade ago. Now that she finally has a home, she sees possibility everywhere. Jaleesa Gray, 28, poses for a portrait outside her home on June 15, […]
Posted inHome, Life
How a lack of affordable housing crimps lives, economy in northeast Wisconsin
By Jeff Bollier, Green Bay Press-Gazette Amber Edwards spent most of the last three years trying to find a place she could afford to live. In 2018, Edwards’ landlord told her the Green Bay duplex where she lived with her 2-year-old daughter and her daughter’s father had been sold and that the new owners planned […]