A new housing report is intensifying debate over whether the University of Wisconsin-Madison needs to build another dorm.
The report, put together by Maxfield Research and commissioned by the Greater Madison Housing Consortium, examines rental housing within one mile of Bascom Hall and argues that thousands of new beds built, under construction or proposed near campus will be enough to meet undergraduate demand in the coming years. University officials see the state of campus-area housing differently.
Madison’s housing crunch drew national attention in October 2023, when UW-Madison students camped overnight to secure off-campus leases. Since then, private developers have brought forward a wave of new projects near campus, helping reshape the local student housing market…