housing

The Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee runs eviction sealing clinics where renters come to see if they can get their names sealed from eviction cases.

Large corporate landlord Highgrove Holdings and its founder David Tomblin are in court battling to keep their properties out of receivership. What is receivership, and can it be used to "evict" Tomblin from Milwaukee?

David Tomblin, founder of Highgrove Holdings, is facing lawsuits that could take over 200 of his Milwaukee properties. The legal trouble follows a campaign by Common Ground, which organized Tomblin's tenants to fight back against him.

David Tomblin, founder of Highgrove Holdings, owns over 200 homes in Milwaukee. His tenants organized to document code violations, leading to lawsuits that threaten to "evict" Tomblin from his properties.

Milwaukee's Community Development Alliance is helping to fill Milwaukee's vacant lots with affordable homes for early childhood educators.

As outside investors buy up Milwaukee’s housing supply and turn it into rentals, one nonprofit uses a comprehensive approach to steadily combat that.

LUSH (Lange Urban Sustainable Homes) hopes to be part of the solution to Milwaukee's housing challenges by offering easy-to-build energy-efficient homes.

Over the past decade, Milwaukee has become a city of renters — with the majority of residents renting rather than owning their homes. There are a lot of systemic reasons for that, but a few community organizations are buying their blocks back one home at a time.

Can changes to Milwaukee's zoning code to allow accessory dwelling units, or "granny flats," help make housing more affordable?

For those in southeast Wisconsin who are looking for basic needs like food, housing, clothing or transportation, IMPACT 211 is built to connect them to resources. The call data IMPACT receives can give a glimpse into the health of the area's social safety net.