Wisconsin budget committee approves two homelessness bills

The Legislature`s Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously on Monday to approve two bills aimed at reducing homelessness in Wisconsin. 

The first would create an Interagency Council on Homelessness led by the governor or his or her designee. The bill`s authors have said the chairperson would be Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.

The council would include secretaries of the eight state agencies that receive homelessness funding and representatives from groups that deal with homelessness throughout the state....