Wisconsin
City-backed housing a success in La Crosse
The city of La Crosse is celebrating successes in providing good housing for local families.
Community development administrator Caroline Gregerson tells city council members that La Crosse has been able to partly or fully fund nearly 100 new or rebuilt homes in the last five years for families at lower income levels.
, with 95 in all built between 2015 and 2019.
Gregerson says the city has been able to get homeless veterans into housing, and reports that
Students from Central High School and Western Tech participate in some home rehab projects, and Gregerson says the construction work has given many of the students a new reason to stay in school.
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