WHEDA Stories is a collection of articles highlighting the positive impact WHEDA has had on the people and places across Wisconsin throughout our 45+ years.
In the late 1970’s, Wisconsin agriculture experienced unprecedented profits due to increasing exports and production...
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For many dairy farmers, the practice of a long-loved Wisconsin tradition is rooted in a bloodline that spans for several generations...
In September of 1984, when the warm summer months began growing cooler, Mr. Richard Hecht found his company, Stuart Manufacturing, tumbling into a despairing situation...
For blighted neighborhoods, the revitalization of community often relies on more than simply affordable housing.
The WHEDA Foundation Housing Grant program, launched in 1985, sought to extend WHEDA’s housing mission even further...
Beginning in the early 2000s, many residents of Darien, a small town in Walworth county, found themselves in an increasingly difficult economic situation...
Playing their weekly game of 500 rummy, a group of residents sit around the table exchanging stories, engaging in conversation, and enjoying one another’s company in the community space...
Cut through, but not forgotten, the citizens of Bronzeville found themselves severed by the construction of two Milwaukee highways which paved through the center of their community...
The health of the Wisconsin housing market relies on finding new opportunities in the form of first-time home buyers...
In 2016, Fort Atkinson was welcoming to a pair of home buyers scouring the market for their new happy home...