Workforce housing TIF program launches with VIA and FORMA projects
Milwaukee
Summary
The city's first two workforce-housing new-construction TIDs would build 147 units in Walker's Point, all capped for households at 80–100% of area median income (rents roughly $1,300–$2,300). It's a test case officials hope unlocks thousands of similar middle-class units statewide.
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Last discussed Mar 20, 2026.
Impact analysis
Up to $3.8 million in TIF for VIA plus TIF for FORMA, offset by 147 new middle-income housing units.
Middle-income renters priced out of both market-rate luxury and subsidized affordable housing, plus Walker's Point residents gaining a blighted-corner redevelopment.
Two owner-occupied homes at the FORMA site will be demolished or deconstructed after relocation proved infeasible.
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