Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Milwaukee committee advances substitute ordinances to increase penalties and enforcement for chronic multiunit landlords
Summary
A Milwaukee Common Council committee considered two substitute ordinances to let the Department of Neighborhood Services designate multiunit residential nuisance properties and allow municipal judges to apply enhanced penalties; LRB said new penalty ranges could be up to three times current amounts, and DNS warned operational details remain to be worked out.
Alderman Bauman's committee reviewed two substitute files aimed at tightening enforcement for chronic nuisance landlords who manage multiunit residential buildings, and moved the substitutes into the record for further work.
The measures take two approaches: give the Department of Neighborhood Services (DNS) a designation process for multiunit residential nuisances and create a municipal-court mechanism that would allow judges to apply penalty "enhancers" on DNS housing cases. "This ordinance would provide a new special penalty range that is 3 times the, original penalty range provided in section 200-19-1," Gunnar Raasch of the Legislative Reference Bureau told the…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
