Milwaukee addresses housing, services
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| Topics: homeless, housing
Milwaukee’s planning commission gave a green light to building 48 supervised apartments for people with mental illness on controversial riverfront property. Mental health services are also being debated in a local election for county executive. Last year, following a yearlong series in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,"Abandoning our Mentally Ill," Gov. Jim Doyle earmarked $11 million for housing. The 2006 series exposed vermin-infested, substandard living conditions and the death of one man that went undetected for four days.
