[CPEO-BIF] "Milwaukee [Wisconsin] proposal seeks to prevent another situation like Community Within The Corridor"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Milwaukee proposal seeks to prevent another situation like Community Within The Corridor

By Alison Dirr
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
January 10, 2024

Nearly a year after residents of an industrial site-turned affordable housing development were evacuated over elevated levels of a cancer-causing vapor, a proposed city ordinance that tightens oversight of such properties.

City department leaders said the new ordinance would codify changes they had made following the March evacuation of more than 150 residents from Community Within The Corridor East Block, 2748 N. 32nd St.

Residents were ordered to leave their homes due to elevated levels of the carcinogen trichloroethylene, or TCE, at the building that was once part of the Briggs & Stratton complex.

Many had been living at the building for months.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/10/milwaukee-plan-seeks-to-prevent-occupancy-in-contaminated-buildings/72113073007/


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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