About the Winnebagoland Housing Coalition

Mission - The Winnebagoland Housing Coalition will maximize resources to identify and address affordable housing needs in our community.
Vision - The Winnebagoland Housing Coalition will:

• Support emergency, transitional, permanent housing and housing service solutions.
• Assess needs and trends based on community demographic data.
• Educate the community about affordable housing issues.
• Collaborate to use existing and evolving housing resources.
• Adopt goals that enable all persons to access suitable affordable housing.

Coalition Goals - The coalition will work to:

• Promote public and private funds to expand affordable housing opportunities and supportive services.
• Educate agencies on legislative issues that impact affordable housing.
• Educate public officials about housing issues.
• Identify issues regarding emergency housing and homelessness in the community.
• Adopt in-service agendas and endorse solutions to emergency housing issues and homelessness.

2014 New Priorities (August 2014- July 2015) *priorities determined through a facilitated planning process*

• Create a Yearly Schedule of Learning 
• Provide the coalition with information and presentations related to housing in the Oshkosh Community
• Include updates for the Balance of State COC at every meeting
• Investigate Other Coalition Models
• Develop a plan and purpose for investigation
• Research other coalitions and provide the Winnebagoland Housing Coalition with this information
• Create a survey to decide what coalition approach to take 
• Explore survey results to see what changes need to be made to the the Winnebagoland Housing Coalition

• Increase Member Activities and Promote Events and Resources
  • Update Winnebagoland Housing Coalition Blog
  • Increase member activity posting to the blog
  • Increase the number of community members accessing the blog, by promoting community resources and possibly creating a Facebook Page
• Prepare an Annual Report/ Highlights
• Decide what we want to track and report and who/ how we want to report this information
• Highlight the Winnebagoland Housing Coalition at the State of the City Address 
• Decide if the report will be based on the Coalition or broader  

2010 New Priorities (September 2010-June 2011) *priorities determined through a facilitated planning process*

• Emergency Housing-Case Managers Network (ongoing)
  -Explore community need for a Warming Shelter
• Transitional Housing
  -Strengthen Intra-community relocation assistance
  -Develop Transitional Housing Task Force
• Supportive and Rental Housing-Landlord Education
• Home Ownership-Inventory of Foreclosure options and support systems

How we work - We are a group that:

• exists to support members in identifying and securing funds to expand affordable housing opportunities in southern Winnebago County
• interacts with legislators to both learn about issues that impact affordable housing and to inform legislators about housing related community issues
• maintains a continuum of care chart and inventory of housing options in southern Winnebago County