The Brief
- Madison completed 2,328 new homes in 2025, with 5,320 additional units still under construction as the city works toward its goal of 15,000 new homes by 2030
- Seventeen percent of the new housing units are priced below affordable market rates, helping address the city’s housing affordability crisis
- The city implemented more than a dozen zoning changes in 2025, including approval of cottage courts and modified lot sizes, to make housing construction easier and more efficient
MADISON, Wis. — Madison made significant strides toward its ambitious housing goals in 2025, completing 2,328 new homes as part of a comprehensive effort to address the city’s housing shortage and affordability challenges.
The city’s Community Development and Housing Department released its annual progress report showing steady advancement toward Madison’s goal of creating 15,000 new homes by 2030, an objective announced in January 2025. While the 2025 completion numbers fell slightly short of the previous year by a few hundred units, city officials said the results aligned with their expectations.
“It was definitely a busy year on the housing front, both in terms of housing production and behind the scenes, with city staff working with the Common Council to create more than a dozen different zoning changes that really made housing easier to build in the last year,” said Jaymes Langrehr, public information officer for the City of Madison Department of Planning and Housing. “The early signs are definitely encouraging, and I think are a sign that a lot of the housing initiatives that the Common Council put into place in the last year are starting to pay off.”…