‘It’s heartbreaking’: Milwaukee residents, vendors left in limbo after Social Development Commission’s shutdown


‘It’s heartbreaking’: Milwaukee residents, vendors left in limbo after Social Development Commission’s shutdown


Milwaukee resident Maria Beltran relied on the Social Development Commission for years for home improvements, including the installation of new furnaces and weatherization.

The Social Development Commission, or SDC, is a quasi-governmental community action agency responsible for providing a variety of services to low-income residents in Milwaukee County.

Among those services are weatherization and lead abatement. Those and other services have remained in limbo since the SDC’s weatherization program was suspended in March by the Wisconsin Department of Administration for misallocation of funds and the organization as a whole suspended operations in late April...

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Ken Notes: We need to replace the SDC with a sustainable entity that addresses these issues and services. When the private sector buys these properties to "flip" they do nice work but the new cost of these homes can be prohibitive.

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