The Housing TAsk Force

The Housing Task Force believes that every person deserves a fair playing field to ensure success in obtaining a stable home. JOSHUA is dedicated to addressing housing inequities and ensuring that the voices of those who have experienced and are currently experiencing housing injustices are heard and empowered to advocate on their own behalf at the county and state levels.

JOSHUA will be implementing the next installment of the Housing Policy Institute in March 2026 to train those affected by housing instability. This will be similar to the previous Housing Policy Institute, but will heavily focus this time on helping people craft their personal narrative and how to tell their story in a way that it can be used as testimony as individuals advocate for the policies they care most about. This is funded partially by the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Funds for Greater Green Bay.

The landscape of housing in our community is changing and with it, Green Bay will face new challenges. This year, JOSHUA has been at the table for conversations around short-term rentals, anti-camping ordinances, shelter funding, closure of Veteran housing and more. We will continue being in community with our partners at Neighborworks, Wise Women Gathering Place, the Brown County Homeless and Housing Coalition, as well as others in the housing advocacy space, because we will always be stronger together.

JOSHUA had several opportunities in 2025 to talk with our local and state representatives about housing legislation. A visit to Madison with the Badger State Housing Alliance lifted up issues like automatic removal of evictions on CCAP while a housing roundtable hosted by Neighborworks focused on issues closer to home, such as affordability and availability of rentals in Green Bay.