{"id":3140,"date":"2023-05-30T21:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2023-05-30T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:18:10","slug":"wisconsin-realtors-pushing-new-legislation-aimed-at-housing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Realtors Pushing New Legislation Aimed at Housing shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-realtors-pushing-new-legislation-aimed-at-housing-shortage\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-realtors-pushing-new-legislation-aimed-at-housing-shortage\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/33867449923_258ce095ac_c.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wisconsin Realtors Association Charge Higher Interest &amp; Fees to Home Buyers\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wisconsin Realtors\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons that homes are so expensive in Wisconsin is that there are not enough of them for sale. And realtors in Wisconsin say one of the reasons there are not enough homes is because there are too many hurdles to build them.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Realtors are pushing a series of proposals at the Wisconsin Capitol that the group says will help lessen the state\u2019s housing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest hurdle is often the process, and the time it takes to get a new subdivision or a new apartment building approved.\u201d Tom Larson, the Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for the Wisconsin Realtors Association, told The Center Square. \u201cAnd the reason why the process takes so long is because the process has become overly politicized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larson said neighbors have a tremendous amount of \u201cinput\u201d when it comes to building new houses, and that both delays construction and increase the cost.<\/p>\n<p>The Realtors\u2019 solution is a piece of legislation that would make it harder for local communities to say no to housing projects.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Bill 266 would require local governments to \u201cto approve certain permit applications<\/p>\n<p>related to residential housing developments that are consistent with certain local requirements and limit the authority of a [local governments] to impose a supermajority requirement for a zoning ordinance amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have a little bit of \u2018Not in my backyard\u2019 within us,\u201d Larson explained. \u201cWe are our biggest problem to the creation of new housing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Realtors have a study that says Wisconsin needs 140,000 new homes by the end of the decade to keep up with housing demand.<\/p>\n<p>Larson said Wisconsin\u2019s housing shortage and worker shortage go hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness can\u2019t get people to fill the job openings they have because the people don\u2019t have a place to live,\u201d Larson explained. \u201cThey can\u2019t attract people from different states, or even different parts of the state because there is no place to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Realtors\u2019 other legislation would create a new revolving loan fund to help pay for senior and workforce housing, to convert older buildings, and to update homes built before 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-realtors-pushing-new-legislation-aimed-at-housing-shortage\/ One of the reasons that homes are so expensive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}