During the 2024-25 academic year, Madison Commons worked with a team of undergraduate and graduate students at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication to
Category: Collaborative Solutions Stories
In Fall 2024, Madison Commons launched a new kind of journalism project—one grounded in collaboration, trust, and the lived realities of Madisonians facing myriad struggles. Throughout the year, teams of student reporters embed with local organizations to tell the deeper stories of challenges such as housing crises and mental health difficulties — and the people working to fix it. To read an overview of this “Collaborative Storytelling”work, funding, and collaborative community journalism practice from our publisher, Sue Robinson, please click here. To read and view the rich archive of first-person profiles, resource lists, know-your-rights explainers, podcasts and more, please scroll down to the content below.
Dane County housing insecurity resource list
This is an evolving list of resources for people seeking help with their housing concerns: wrongful eviction, problems with landlords or notices of other programs
Exploring how to house nontraditional students seeking degrees
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see the
Learn about the combined resources of the Homeless Services Consortium of Dane County
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see the
Subsidized housing for nontraditional college students: Might it be right for Madison? UW Odyssey Project leaders explore the possibility.
This story, a modified version of a story that ran earlier in The Capital Times, is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to
Wisconsin lawmakers take aim at AI pricing in rental housing, joining national antitrust fight
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see the
Meet Team Housing partner Brian Bedford
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see the
Explore the Scholar House concept
Watch this documentary video created by Sreejita Patra and Kiesen Williams about the Family Scholar House, a model program in Kentucky and a few other
What we can learn from urban renewal
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see the
Ten tips for tenants from Wisconsin attorneys
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see
