Why Do They Call it Affordable Housing When It's Not?

Published: June 17, 2022, 7:24 p.m.

b'Trying to get to the bottom of what \\u2018affordable\\u2019 housing and \\u2018workforce\\u2019 housing means, and why rental prices that are supposed to be affordable for working people are not affordable for them, Peninsula Pulse Editor Debra Fitzgerald talks with Professor Kurt Paulsen, an urban planner and economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paulsen\\u2019s research and teaching focuses on housing, affordable housing finance and policy. He\\u2019s also the author of the report, \\u201cFalling Behind: Addressing Wisconsin\\u2019s Workforce Housing Shortage to Strengthen Families.\\u201d'