Report: New Housing Desperately Needed In Superior-Douglas Co.

Roughly 2,000 New Units By 2025

The city of Superior unveiled a comprehensive study on the city’s aging housing infrastructure and what it needs to do to keep up.

“We got really good news with a lot of good information, but I think the main takeaway is that we need units. We need market-rate units. We need single family units and we need subsidized units,” said Jason Serck, the director of development at the city of Superior.

Superior’s housing stock is the oldest in the state of Wisconsin, and the outside research company, Maxfield, found there’s simply not enough quality affordable to line up with the projected growth of Superior and Douglas County through 2025.

But Serck believes that will change now that the study is complete.

The projected units that we’re really looking at doing … a thousand in the next 10 years, that’s a lot. That’s a lot of units. It’s a good goal and I think that’s surprising.”

In all, the research and consulting company estimates Superior and rural Douglas County will need roughly 2,000 new housing units by 2015 to meet demand.