State nonprofit, Janesville work to increase home ownership, neighborhood stability

Kathy Kamp believes in the power of home ownership and its ability to help transform beleaguered neighborhoods.

Kamp is the executive director of the Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development, a statewide nonprofit. The organization is building two homes and renovating a third in Janesville’s central city.

The ongoing projects continue a relationship between the nonprofit and the city that began in 2008.

That’s when Janesville received neighborhood stabilization money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.   ...more