University of Wisconsin-Madison
A little over five years ago now, my wife accepted a job with Bayfield Public Schools. Offer in hand, we took to the streets to find ourselves a new home. Few homes on the market fell within our price range; those that did often required significant repair and deferred maintenance. We remained optimistic even as […]
Post World War II, many Americans headed for the suburbs. This midcentury pivot from traditionally denser city living to more expansive single family parcels marked the inception of a zoning code–Euclidean code–that not only favored the compartmentalization of municipal zones (residential, commercial, etc.) but actively abolished a long-standing tradition of city parcels: the accessory dwelling […]
At the end of last week, as the clock ticked into Saturday, a massive housing bill, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, through inaction–President Donald Trump neither signed nor vetoed the bill–passed into law. The bill, which passed both the house and senate with overwhelming bipartisan support, seeks to address one of the more […]
