HATS - Housing Advocacy Team of Stoughton

06/10/2026

Fingers crossed the weather holds up! Come on down for music and buy some dessert/lemonade from our booth.

UP NEXT... Inside Pocket will be performing this Thursday!🎶🎷

6/11 Vendors:
Food➡️Jakarta Cafe - Rice Bowls
Dessert➡️HATS - Housing Advocacy Team of Stoughton - Bars, cookies, water, and lemonade.

06/05/2026

On June 11th HATS will be fundraising by selling desserts and beverages at Gazebo Musikk. We will have bars ($2), cookies ($1), water ($1), and lemonade ($1). Hope to see you there!

ANNOUNCING THE GAZEBO MUSIKK 2026 SUMMER LINEUP!

05/29/2026

No surprise here...the Madison metro area median home price is five times higher than the median income.

The median home cost in Wisconsin’s two biggest metro areas is at least five times the median household income in those communities, among the highest in the Midwest.

05/28/2026

Looking for some unique greeting cards? HATS has 4 designs available and 100% of the proceeds goes back to HATS. Each package sells for $10 and can be purchased at the Stoughton Area Senior Center.

05/28/2026

HATS sincerely thanks the Auxiliary of the Otis Sampson American Legion Post #59 for donating proceeds from their Senior Prom in April. We celebrate the generousity of these folks who do so much for our community!

04/23/2026

The Stoughton Area Community Foundation is sincerely appreciated for its generous $5,000 grant awarded to the Housing Advocacy Team of Stoughton.

We can now say “yes” to one more family—a single parent with three children. That one step makes a real difference.

04/20/2026

This school year, SASD has 24 students from 12 households and 1 unaccompanied youth who are currently homeless. This story from Eau Claire shines a light on the problems faced by students experiencing homelessness.

Keyana struggled with temporary homelessness at different periods throughout high school. She had friends to stay with during the gaps but the instability made it hard to focus on school.

04/20/2026

Community Land Trust Housing: An Important Solution for Affordable Single-Family Homeownership. This fact sheet gives an overview of community land trusts (CLTs) and their role in providing permanently-affordable housing in the community, and includes some first steps for municipalities who are interested in bringing a CLT into their community.

https://rhs.danecounty.gov/documents/pdf/FactSheets/CLT-FactSheet-v4-FINAL.pdf

04/15/2026

With skyrocketing costs and a skilled labor shortage, new construction can’t keep pace with the city’s population boom, driving prices up and shutting prospective buyers out.

03/04/2026

HATS was a recipient of the Stoughton Utilities Project Round Up program. Thanks to all Stoughton Utilities customers who choose to "round up"!