Proactive Public Sector-Led Steps to Generating New Housing

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Carol Cizauskas

The small town of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, is taking proactive steps to building diversified new housing.

Municipal leaders throughout the country are challenged by a chasm of diverse housing, especially the missing middle of affordable housing. That missing middle of duplexes, townhomes, and multifamily apartments is pinching housing markets across the country.

Historically in the U.S., an average house that used to cost five times the average annual household income has ballooned to eight times that income, higher even than during the housing bubble of 2008. That’s a sevenfold increase.

Published in The Municipality Magazine.

Fort Atkinson Banker Road Neighborhood Plan

Packed with Potential

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Carol Cizauskas

A riverfront park provides access, where there once was none, to the Yahara River.

Years ago, in the small city of Monona, Wis., the citizens wondered if they could develop a waterfront attraction—given that most of the city’s water access already had been developed. And the city’s neighboring, much larger state capital, Madison, had laid claim to other potential waterfront sites. There was one spot, along the Yahara River, that in Monona connects Lake Monona to Lake Waubesa. But it was an ugly-duckling location, where charming homes looked upon an opposite shore filled with dilapidated buildings, environmental contamination, and nothing to play up the beauty of the river on whose banks the houses perched.

Published in Parks & Rec Business.

Redevelopment vision, Monona riverfront

Portraits of the newsman

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Carol Cizauskas

Friends, colleagues, rivals and antagonists remember Dennis Myers.

Now you are gone, but you live in my heart. You are Nevada. You are a journalist’s journalist. You are a friend to the poor and the powerless. You are a friend to all who knew your heart.

I love you.

Published in Reno News & Review

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Dennis Myers at the wedding of Carol Cizauskas and Donald Prather, The Plumas House, Reno, Nevada, 12 October 2013. Dennis served as Carol’s best man. PHOTO BY PAT CASEY

Disunited states

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Carol Cizauskas

A Bernie Sanders supporter describes her frustrating experiences at the Democratic National Convention.

I began to believe for the first time in the sacredness of my power as an American citizen and voter. I began to learn that standing for social justice was not only morally right, but was to be fought for. I began to understand that I would never again chip away at my soul by voting for a lesser evil. I knew from here forward, I would vote only for moral candidates who would fight for justice.

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The view from the Nevada delegates’ seats during Bernie Sanders’s speech the first night of the convention. PHOTO BY CAROL CIZAUSKAS

Published in Reno News & Review

Learning politics

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Carol Cizauskas

2014 election results bring volunteers to Legislature.

“Just because we might not be able to win on a bill,” Democratic Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson said, “doesn’t mean … that we aren’t the smartest in our strategy, the smartest in our reason, and the most well organized.”

Madeleine Poore, left, met with Assemblymember Jill Dickman, who represents her in the Nevada Legislature. PHOTO BY CAROL CIZAUSKAS

Published in Reno News & Review

Grass roots go to Carson

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Carol Cizauskas

Nevadans from around the state converge for a day of lobbying.

Why lobby? That was the question Catana Barnes of Reno faced: “I was one of those people that thought lobbying was a bad word. It was nice to know that it’s more of an empowerment.”

Mary Skau, left, and Ashley Stieb lobby Assemblymember Randy Kirner, a Washoe Republican.
PHOTO BY CAROL CIZAUSKAS

Published in Reno News & Review

Steel cage death match

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Carol Cizauskas

Election 2010: The RN&R looks at selected local races, ballot questions, and begs for mercy.

But it’s not all baseball, hot dogs and apple pie in the eyes of concerned residents, who question the city’s use of multiple subsidies to entice the Aces to build a stadium and to play downtown. “For our entire infrastructure to just [be] sold,” Anderson said, “it’s just crazy. Somebody’s got to do something about it.”

Geno Martini, center, with his opponent in this year’s election, Ron Schmitt, right.
PHOTO BY DENNIS MYERS

Published in Reno News & Review

Somber message in Sparks

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Carol Cizauskas

By calling her opponents terrorists, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo got the United States to enlist.

“Men took turns interrogating me while beating my head with their fists and blunt objects. Layers of plastic bags were put on my head. My torturers would tighten the bags until I could no longer breathe. I passed out twice. … After about 12 hours, they put me back in the van, still hands tied and blindfolded. They threatened to kill me.”

from Philippine pastor Berlin Guerrero’s testimony to the Philippine commission on human rights

Bishop Eliezer Pascua speaks about violence and human rights issues in the philippines during chapel service at Jim Elliot Christian High School Wednesday morning.
PHOTO BY BRIAN FEULNER/NEWS-SENTINEL

Published in Reno News & Review

Growing out

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Carol Cizauskas

Activists fight sprawl into areas remote from the Truckee Meadows.

“Once they develop that Winnemucca Ranch, it’s gone forever. Once they cut down the old growth, it’s gone forever,” Bob Fulkerson said. “We can stop them right now on those issues, but next year, yeah, they could be back. But, you know what? It’s our watch that matters. … The next generation—it’ll be up to them. They’d better freakin’ be up to the challenge.”

At a demonstration last week, protestor Susan McNeall displayed a regional planning map showing the distance between the remote Winnemucca Ranch land west of Pyramid Lake and the Reno metro area.
PHOTO BY DENNIS MYERS

Published in Reno News & Review

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Proactive Public Sector-Led Steps to Generating New Housing

Municipal leaders throughout the country are challenged by a chasm of diverse housing, especially the missing middle of affordable housing. That missing middle of duplexes, townhomes, and multifamily apartments is pinching housing markets across the country.

Historically in the U.S., an average house that used to cost five times the average annual household income has ballooned to eight times that income, higher even than during the housing bubble of 2008. That’s a sevenfold increase.

Packed with Potential

Portraits of the newsman

Now you are gone, but you live in my heart. You are Nevada. You are a journalist’s journalist. You are a friend to the poor and the powerless. You are a friend to all who knew your heart.

I love you.

Learning politics

“Just because we might not be able to win on a bill,” Democratic Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson said, “doesn’t mean … that we aren’t the smartest in our strategy, the smartest in our reason, and the most well organized.”

Steel cage death match

Somber message in Sparks

from Philippine pastor Berlin Guerrero’s testimony to the Philippine commission on human rights

Growing out