{"id":24456,"date":"2019-04-18T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24456"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:30:16","slug":"milwaukee-tries-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/milwaukee-tries-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Tries Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"

News from DC: D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn\u2019t gone as planned.<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell \u2014 it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately apartment building in Northwest Washington.<\/p>\n

But the Art Deco complex, which overlooks Rock Creek Park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is today the troubled locus of a debate on housing policy in a city struggling with the twin crises of homelessness and gentrification.<\/p>\n

Located in affluent Cleveland Park and designed by Mihran Mesrobian \u2014 the prewar architect behind such Washington landmarks as the Hay-Adams Hotel \u2014 Sedgwick Gardens was once out of reach for low-income District residents.<\/p>\n

That changed two years ago, when D.C. housing officials dramatically increased the value of rental subsidies. The goal was to give tenants who had previously clustered in impoverished, high-crime areas east of the Anacostia River a shot at living in more desirable neighborhoods. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Milwaukee is going to try the same thing, only harder: Downtown apartment tower would include affordable units — and the city Housing Authority as developer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A new $150 million downtown Milwaukee apartment high-rise would have an unusual feature: a large number of units with affordable, below-market rents.<\/p>\n

Perhaps even more unusual is the developer \u2014 the city Housing Authority.<\/p>\n

The proposal, which would redefine Milwaukee’s public housing scene, was unveiled Wednesday. <\/p>\n

“It will allow us to change the narrative,” said M. Joseph Donald, a Housing Authority board member.<\/p>\n

The 32-story building would have around 315 to 350 apartments, as well as 43,000 square feet of office space. Its conceptual plans call for a swimming pool, fitness center and other amenities typically found in upscale high-rises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone want to bet that it’s a different outcome? I wonder if the people behind this program would even take the bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News from DC: D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn\u2019t gone as planned.: The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell \u2014 it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24457,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24456\/revisions\/24457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}