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Addie Costello

Addie Costello is Wisconsin Public Radio’s 2024-2025 Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow embedded in the Wisconsin Watch newsroom. Her reporting has been published by Marketplace, USA TODAY, the Austin American-Statesman, public radio stations across Texas and several publications in her home state of Nebraska. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

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A small in-construction sustainable home is shown at a medium shot on a bright spring day in Hillsboro, Wisconsin. Interior plywood is visible, as is the housewrap around the windows and front door. A small "For Sale" sign is planted in the leftmost foreground.
While barriers persist, factory-built homes are helping families realize ownership dreams
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November 10, 2025

A more efficient, affordable development model helps Habitat for Humanity build more homes during a housing crisis. But some Wisconsin municipalities exclude manufactured homes from neighborhoods.

A photo shows a care worker sitting at a computer with a client. The care worker is pointing at the computer screen to show the client something.
“Madison’s best kept secret”: People living with mental illness find work, care and community at a clubhouse built for them
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April 8, 2025

Funding for Yahara House is scarce, and Wisconsin invests little in a health care model that’s thriving in Michigan.