“How can a Motel 6 feel more like a home than stone and bricks?” UW–Madison student artist and Madison 2024 Youth Poet Laureate Justin Festege-Russell
Category: Housing
Cohousing offers an alternative to high rents and solitary living
As rent prices around the country continue to rise, cohousing offers a more sustainable, social and community-oriented solution. — Video by Matt Gatland
The Tenant Resource Center fights housing instability and provides resources to renter households facing eviction
According to data collected by the Tenant Resource Center, a Madison organization that supplies eviction information, support and legal representation to households and individuals, 2,353
Housing Last Podcast
The podcast, Housing Last, emphasizes systematic factors rather than personal responsibility of the existing narratives about homelessness. The following episodes feature unhoused people and their
Historic cabin slated for major renovation
For over 50 years, a lakeside spot on the north shore of Lake Mendota offered a fun-filled summer camp for boys that attracted children and
Collaborative Storytelling: How we do community-based, solutions focused work in Madison
In Fall 2024, Madison Commons launched an initiative to explore how journalists might act as caregivers in hyperlocal communities, working in collaboration with a nonprofit
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
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

