About

Dodgeville is facing rising housing costs, low housing inventory, and declining school enrollment. These issues are connected and complex. Solving them requires multiple perspectives and voices. This is why we are inviting residents to help us take a new look at them.

We invite Dodgeville residents to be part of the city’s Community Assembly on Housing. This is not your traditional public meeting. It is a nonpartisan, facilitated process that will bring together a representative group of Dodgeville residents to learn about our local housing and enrollment challenges and develop concrete recommendations for the City and School District.

More information on the event is available here.

Main Street Agenda

UW–Madison’s Division of Extension Community Development Institute and the La Follette School of Public Affairs are partnering to hold community assemblies across Wisconsin to help find solutions to some of the state’s most complex and pressing problems. A community assembly is a small-scale forum in which a representative group comes together to learn, deliberate, and make recommendations about a specific issue or proposal. While community assemblies harken back to ancient Greece, they have regained popularity in recent years as a way to engage communities in addressing complex issues, ranging from affordable housing to digital safety.

Hosts

City of Dodgeville and Dodgeville School District

Organizers

La Follette School of Public Affairs, Division of Extension Community Development Institute, Leadership Wisconsin

Contact

Mindy Walker, mindy.walker@wisc.edu