This LIVE kick-off event will help participants understand the housing problems and potential solutions for the Osceola Area. It is called CRASH (Constructing a Roadmap to Address the Shortage of Housing). People want to move to this area but they can't find housing and the inventory is at an all-time low.

Q & A and discussion.

To attract young families and a quality workforce, we need to take proactive steps. Osceola can position itself as an attractive location for the type of housing projects we want and need. First we need to better understand our community's needs and the development process. This approach will help Osceola stakeholders create a forward-looking strategy for optimizing housing growth in the Village and surrounding areas.

Errin Welty is the downtown development account manager at Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation(WEDC), working primarily with Main Street Communities like Osceola. She loves working with businesses, property owners and community groups around the state to make projects a reality.

Errin has an undergraduate degree in community development from St. Cloud State and Masters in Planning and Real Estate from the University of Colorado.

Previous experience includes work in downtown organizations in St. Cloud, Wheat Ridge and Denver, as well as commercial real estate, market analysis and economic development consulting.