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Foundations for Freedom will offer emergency housing for women forced into sex work. By Jeramey Jannene - May 18th, 2021 03:24 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Milwaukee City Hall. Photo by Jeramey Jannene. The City of Milwaukee has found a partner and a building for a new emergency housing facility for victims of human trafficking. Dana World-Patterson‘s Foundations for Freedom will acquire and renovate an eight-unit apartment building on the city’s north side. The seven-year-old nonprofit works with females that have been compelled to provide commercial sex acts through physical force, fraud or other kinds of coercion. “The buyer will use each unit as emergency housing,” said Department of City Development real estate services manager ....
Worst building ever seen by city DNS will be turned into 35 apartments. By Jeramey Jannene - Feb 9th, 2021 10:25 am //end headline wrapper ?> McKinley School and planned homes. Photo by Jeramey Jannene. Elevations by Quorum Architects. The complicated plan to redevelop the fire-damaged William McKinley School, 2001 W. Vliet St., received its final design approvals Monday. The Historic Preservation Commission signed off on plans for the building’s exterior and four new homes to be built on the north end of the property. The $12.6 million project centers on redeveloping the school, completed in 1885, into 35 affordable apartments for families of deployed military personnel. Four market-rate, three-bedroom homes would be built along W. Vliet St. and sold for approximately $150,000 each. ....