Number
201294
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. HAMILTON AND JOHNSON
Title
Substitute resolution approving executive fellow partnerships between the City of Milwaukee and FUSE Corps.
Analysis
This resolution approves two executive fellow partnerships between the City of Milwaukee and FUSE Corps.
In addition, the resolution expresses the Common Council’s support for an additional partnership between FUSE Corps and Employ Milwaukee. The executive fellows will be hosted by the Department of City Development, Office of Early Childhood Initiatives and Employ Milwaukee for one year and will design and institutionalize an action-oriented strategic plan for affordable housing and home ownership.
Body
Whereas, The affordable housing crisis has continued to impact residents across the United States; and
Whereas, The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the housing crisis along with the many of the other inequities that impact the lives of low-income and minority Americans; and
Whereas, In Milwaukee, the homeownership rate has fallen by 14% over the past decade; and
Whereas, According to the U.S. Census Bureau, just over 7 percent of African Americans in the Milwaukee metropolitan area own homes; and
Whereas, Milwaukee’s Black-White homeownership gap is higher than all but 8 of the country’s 100 metro areas; and
Whereas, 40% of Milwaukee’s Black renters spend more than half of their incomes on rent; and
Whereas, According to a 2017 meta-analysis on the impacts of early childhood education, participation resulted in statistically significant reductions in special education placement, better grade retention and increases in high school graduation rates; and
Whereas, According to U.S. Census data, low-income families who pay for childcare spend 30% of their incomes on care, compared to 8% for families not in poverty, making it less likely that lower-income families will send their children to formal childcare; and
Whereas, According to the P...
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