Changes for WHEDA?

I was clued in to something the Majority Leader-elect Scott Fitzgerald said at a WisPolitics.com luncheon last week.  In addition to the proposed replacement of the Department of Commerce previously discussed, WHEDA apparently is being targeted for changes as well.

(Scott) Walker’s serious. He’s been talking about making significant changes to agencies and you may not recognize them on the other side,” he said, also mentioning Workforce Development, WHEDA and DNR.

No details on what those changes would be.  One possibility may be shifting the Division of Housing under the Department of Commerce to WHEDA.  Or perhaps, as I wondered previously, making WHEDA more focused on economic development replacing some of the Commerce programs.

WHEDA currently provides homebuyer grants, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, and other loans for development and rehabilitation.  I cannot imagine how any of that would change significantly.