Milwaukee housing; public housing building inspections begin
Milwaukee housing; public housing building inspections begin
By Sam Kraemer FOX6 News Milwaukee
Updated May 6, 2024 9:25pm CDT
Milwaukee public housing residents react to changes
The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) now has oversight from a different entity. It comes more than a year after a nonprofit started advocating for low-income renters.
It's official: The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) now has oversight from a different entity. It comes more than a year after a nonprofit started advocating for low-income renters.
Trash build-ups on property, pest problems like bed bugs and rats, even mold inside units.
Since it began 80 years ago, any complaint on the housing authority went to the housing authority.
That changed on Monday, May 6.
When she first moved in 11 years ago, Vivian Jones thought she'd found her home at Lapham Park. But as time moved on, that first impression did too.
"It was a beautiful place. Very quiet, clean building," Jones said. "The grounds [were] kept up. People shouldn't have to live with mold dripping down over the toilets and around the toilets. They shouldn't have to live with bed bugs and scratching and itching."
Last September, Jones testified before a Common Council committee. She wanted more oversight over her landlord, HACM.
"Usually, when we complain, nothing was done about it. It just went, you know, HACM was overseeing HACM," Jones said. Read more.