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Legal Aid director urges county to sustain Eviction Free MKE; program reports served 10,000 people
Summary
The executive director of the Legal Aid Society in Milwaukee asked the county to continue funding Eviction Free MKE, which the speaker said has served over 10,000 cases and produced quantifiable avoided costs in a third-party report.
Colleen Foley, executive director of the Legal Aid Society in Milwaukee, asked the Committee on Finance to continue county support for Eviction Free MKE, a program that provides eviction defense and related services.
Foley told supervisors the program "was supposed to be a 3 year pilot" and is now moving into year five. She said the program "has served over 10,000 impacting over 30,000 individuals, including over 13,000 children in our community." She cited a…
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