Planning & Housing Options
Planning & Housing Resources
1000 Friends has been meeting with advocacy groups, hosting forums, engaging organizations and mobilizing activists to support the City of Milwaukee’s plan to update their zoning code.
ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units)
- See our April 2025 Webinar page all about ADUs.
Exclusionary Zoning
- See our webinar Exclusionary Zoning to understand how zoning has been used to as a tool for racial discrimination and exclusion
In the News
- Read How Zoning Can Grow Milwaukee
- Why the city is shrinking. And how more duplexes, triplexes, townhomes and accessory dwellings could change this. Written by 1000 Friends Board Member John Johnson, in Urban Milwaukee.
Read 1000 Friends Housing News.
Together for Homes
Together for Homes is a advocacy coalition coming together to support common-sense municipal legislation that will bring about more attainable housing choices for all Milwaukeeans.
The coalition supports building more starter homes, workforce housing, and transit-accessible housing in the right places close to jobs and opportunities. As their first action, they are asking Milwaukee Common Council members to support the Growing MKE plan that removes barriers to creating more attainable age-friendly housing choices across neighborhoods. Learn more.
Growing MKE
Growing MKE is a citywide planning effort that will set a framework for housing growth and choice in Milwaukee. The project will result in a proposed amendment to the Citywide Policy Plan and updates to the City’s Zoning Code. Learn more.
