Gina Castro
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Dec 5, 2024 |
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
After announcing it had reached its fundraising goal, the Walker's Point Youth & Family Center has learned the city of Milwaukee's one-time $100,000 grant will not be matched by an anonymous donor. That means the youth shelter still has another $77,446 to raise before the end of this month, said Erik J. Koepnick, the shelter's director of fund development, in an email Thursday. If it does not, the shelter faces closure.
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Dec 2, 2024 |
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
In an apartment building with more than 160 units, is it legal for a landlord to split the water bill evenly, even if some units use more water than others? That's the question a reader recently posed to Public Investigator. It turns out that Wisconsin law doesn't give landlords much guidance as to how they should divide utility bills in buildings with shared meters.
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Nov 27, 2024 |
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
The Walker's Point Youth & Family Center will survive another year. The Milwaukee Common Council unanimously voted to award the shelter $100,000 in community development block grants Tuesday morning, catapulting the shelter beyond the $200,000 it needed to keep its doors open. "I was very heartened to have so many colleagues join me in advocating for this," said Ald. JoCasta Zamarripa, who co-sponsored the proposal, at the council meeting.
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Nov 25, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Gina Castro
Illegal lockouts are on the rise in Milwaukee County, according to Brittany Schoenick, an attorney with Legal Action. Landlords and property owners sometimes opt for illegal lockouts, also called self-help evictions, to save cash and time. However, it's illegal in Wisconsin. In order to remove tenants from properties, Wisconsin law requires property owners to file for an eviction in court. Still, landlords often hold the upper hand in this situation, Schoenick said.
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Nov 25, 2024 |
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
It took two hours for Greenfield police to evict Joseph Zeugner from the home he lived in for nine years. It didn't matter that the house flippers who purchased the property didn't go through the court's eviction process. It didn't matter that police officers didn't have the power to carry out evictions at all. Zeugner, a 47-year-old landscaper, became homeless that July. He had no car. No place to go. Just a backpack and his dog, Biggie Paws.
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