After two troubled affordable housing complexes are sold, far fewer of their units will be devoted to supportive housing. City officials say that change, along with new management, will help avoid some of the problems that plagued the buildings.
CLAIM: A booth at an LGBTQ Pride festival in Madison, Wisconsin, was handing out free letters qualifying transgender and nonbinary people for gender-confirmation surgeries.
Garrett Olson was kicked out of McPike Park when the City ordered the homeless to leave that encampment in February. Now, he’s being told to be out of Reindahl Park by May 9.
“It’s horrible, ” Olson said. “Trying to look at other people and watch them go through it too.”
Brenda Konkel, co-president of Occupy Madison, said the tiny homes project she’s been working on for the homeless got permanent zoning approval at the same council meeting Tuesday night, but it isn’t a solution to the needs of the homeless who have nowhere to go right now.