City of Milwaukee - File #: 051017

• File #: 051017
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/15/2005
• In control: ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/13/2005
• Title: Substitute resolution creating an affordable housing task force to study issues related to establishing a City of Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund.
• Sponsors: ALD. MURPHY, ALD. MCGEE JR., ALD. D'AMATO, ALD. HAMILTON, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. WADE
• Indexes: HOUSING, HOUSING TRUST FUND

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/21/2005	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/13/2005	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
12/13/2005	1	COMMON COUNCIL	SUBSTITUTED	Pass	15:0
12/13/2005	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
11/29/2005	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: All members of the committee asked to be added as sponsors.	Pass	5:0
11/23/2005	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/23/2005	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/23/2005	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/22/2005	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
11/15/2005	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
051017
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY, MCGEE, HAMILTON, WADE, BAUMAN, AND D’AMATO

Title
Substitute resolution creating an affordable housing task force to study issues related to establishing a City of Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund.
Analysis
This resolution creates an affordable housing task force to study issues related to establishing a City of Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund. The task force shall identify and evaluate existing programs that benefit the homeless and economically disadvantaged to avoid duplication of services and identify their funding sources to assess the possibility of a City of Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund as a qualified program recipient. The task force shall participate in the RFP process to hire a consultant who will assist the task force in its work of defining the structure, goals, objectives, strategies, financial resources and programs for the City of Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund. The task force shall present its findings and recommendations to the Common Council within 180 days of adoption of this resolution, and shall thereafter be dissolved.
Body
Whereas, In wake of the various national disasters and global wars, the numbers of homeless and other economically disadvantaged persons are growing; and

Whereas, Private businesses, community-based organizations, city, county and state agencies administer and manage various programs dedicated to ensuring that children and families are provided clean and safe shelter at affordable rents; and

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee continues to support and develop programs that provide quality, safe, affordable housing as a stabilizing factor for those persons and families most in need; and

Whereas, The Common Council in 2000 supported federal legislation designed to create and fund a National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, a bill that did not become law but would have leveraged funds against various publicly and privately run housing programs that serve thousa...