A newly-constructed single family home in Green Bay is helping fill the need for cheaper housing. June 9, 2025. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A newly-constructed single family home in Green Bay is helping fill the need for cheaper housing. The home is located at 929 N. Broadway.
A ribbon cutting for the home was held Monday and is a symbol of a much larger effort to bring more affordable housing to the area. It’s part of a long-term goal for NeighborWorks Green Bay.
“When we’re building new homes on these infill lots in this community, we’re contributing to ending the huge deficit that we’ve got in housing in our community,” NeighborWorks Green Bay President & CEO Noel Halvorsen said.
Over the years, NeighborWorks has helped renovate or build 466 homes and apartments and have connected thousands of families to lower cost living situations.
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation provided construction financing in partnership with Forward Community Investments for this project.
Altogether, allowing the home to be significantly cheaper than other homes on the market.
“When you look at the cost of construction these days, they’re just tremendous and we see a lot of new homes being built in the market that are just priced too high to be attainable for a modest income household,” Halvorsen said.
Not only will the home help combat the housing crisis, it also served as real-world hands-on experience for high school students, getting them career ready.
Students from Green Bay Area Public School District’s Bridges Construction & Renovation Program completed much of the home’s carpentry over the school year.
“They’re always really engaged in being able to be outside of school, doing the real work, maybe not often in the winter when it’s a little bit colder but they take pride in their work and they really acknowledge the skills they’re learning along the way,” GBAPS Curricular Pathways director Eric Conn said.
Conn said the program is a great way for students to get a foot in the door of the construction industry and hone their skills on a real project. He’s proud of their work on this home and looks forward to their next project in the fall.
He said this is something special everyone should look back on.
“The pride really should be for the students as well as their instructor, who are the ones doing that work day in and day out to not only learn the skills, but to have such a high quality product when they’re done,” Conn said.
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