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Cohousing — An Alternate Way to Live

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The following is a summary of a presentation given in Madison at the Friends Meeting House by Nick Meima on May 16. Meima lives in a Cohousing community in Ann Arbor Michigan, and he also designs and helps develop new Cohousing communities. Madison has at least one Cohousing community with about 18 units in operation, […]

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Metro Milwaukee Fair Housing Council (MMFHC) and Partners Declare, “Don’t Borrow Trouble!”

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Predatory lending. It sounds bad. It is bad. And it’s a growing problem in Milwaukee. Predatory loans can come from lenders, brokers, or home improvement contractors. According to a joint HUD/Treasury report to Congress, in involves lending practices that: • engage in deception or fraud • manipulate the borrower through aggressive sales tactics • take unfair advantage of […]

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Gentrification: What Does the Future Hold for Riverwest?

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This is the first installment in an ongoing series where the Riverwest Currents will look at issues of neighborhood gentrification. It’s a familiar pattern in nearby neighborhoods — you don’t have to look much further than Brewer’s Hill, Brady Street, Walker’s Point… all places that have undergone “gentrification” in recent years. It’s the same old […]

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A Tale of Two Schools

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Two completely different schools co-exist side by side, just two blocks away from each other, right in the middle of the neighborhood. Still, many students here bus out of the neighborhood to go to school. Both schools would like to change that. by Sonya Jongsma Knauss and Jackie Detloff Messmer Catholic Preparatory School Type: Catholic; […]