Restrictive zoning policies shut door to affordable housing in some suburbs

Amy Kaiser is a recently divorced mother of two children. She's 38-years-old, has a college degree and works at a bank in Elm Grove, earning what s...

February 1, 2023
3:40 PM

Amy Kaiser is a recently divorced mother of two children. She's 38-years-old, has a college degree and works at a bank in Elm Grove, earning what she describes as a lower-middle-class income.  Kaiser was living in Brookfield, but recently had to move to an eight-unit apartment complex in West Allis after a divorce.  "It's not too far of a journey to work, but definitely not necessarily the community I wanted to end up in," Kaiser said. Kaiser wants to live in a home or duplex in Brookfield or Elm Grove.

Evan Casey