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Wausau planners hear 2025 older-adult housing report highlighting affordability and workforce gaps
Summary
A North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission draft forecasts rising near-term demand for older-adult housing in Marathon County and warns affordability and care-worker shortages will shape what types of housing the city needs; the report will go to Economic Development Dec. 2 and then to city council.
WAUSAU, Wis. — The Wausau Plan Commission on Nov. 18 received a presentation on a draft 2025 report assessing housing needs for residents aged 55 and older, which concludes that affordability and workforce shortfalls will most constrain local capacity to serve that population.
Sam Wessel of the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission told commissioners the study segments older adults into three age bands (55–64, 65–74 and 75-plus) and projects how those cohorts are likely to occupy different housing types over the next two decades. Wessel said the analysis holds current income, owner-occupancy and care-need rates constant and applied a 20% buffer to the projections to avoid overstatement.
Wessel summarized the central findings: owner-occupied…
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