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City-backed housing a success in La Crosse

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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.    

Gregerson says just In the year 2016, the city helped finance 32 home-building projects, mainly in the Poage and Washburn neighborhoods, 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 filling basements of frequently flooded homes on the north side is helping people remain in their houses.  

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.

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.

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