Quick Links to Wisconsin Public Interest Law Publications
A Thinking Guide to Inclusive Child Care
This 51 page pdf file format was written in February 2008 by Mark Sweet, PhD and posted by Disability Rights Wisconsin, Inc.,
an advocacy public interest law firm in Wisconsin concentrating on the rights of disabled persons.
For Related information on 2007 Changes in Child Care Record Keeping Rules
Click here
Legal Action of Wisconsin Report on Milwaukee's Housing Crisis: Foreclosures, Evictions, and Subprime Lending
This 33 page pdf file was written in July 2007 by John Pawsarat and Lois Quinn of the Employment and Training Institute,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and posted by Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc., a public interest law firm representing concentrating on
representing low-income clients in Wisconsin.
Legal Action of Wisconsin Report on Mortgage Lending Practices in Milwaukee County, Part Two,
expands
on the first report and identifies the major lenders in the subprime lending market in Milwaukee County.
RELATED REPORT:
Homeless in Milwaukee,
a point in time survey on January 25, 2007, conducted by the Continuum of Care for Milwaukee County.
The Tenant Source Book Revised
For more than two decades The Tenant Sourcebook has been the
standard reference source
for tenants and their advocates on housing law in Wisconsin. In May
2007 it was updated by Attorney Korey Lundin, Managing Attorney of the
Green Bay office of Legal Action of Wisconsin. It
is available in a
56 page pdf version that includes the Wisconsin Statutes and a
42 page pdf version that does not include the statutes.
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New Law Protects Tenants Who Are Victims of Domestic Violence
A new law in Wisconsin goes into effect April 10, 2008 that will allow victims of domestic violence to
get out of leases in order to move to protect themselves. The new law,
2007 Wisconsin Act 184, allows tenants to give notice to the landlord terminating a rental agreement if they have obtained an injunction
against the abuser, or a criminal complaint has been filed against the abuser for domestic violence, or there is a no contact order
as a condition of release. The tenant must send the landlord a certified copy of the injunction, complaint, or no contact
order by registered mail, certified mail or personal delivery.
The notice is effective at the end of the month after it is given. The new law will not help tenants who
have month-to-month rental agreements because those agreements can already be terminated for any reason if the
tenant give 28 days written notice before the next rental period. But the new law will allow victims of
domestic violence to end leases that otherwise might subject them to months of having to pay rent.
The bill also has some protections for landlords. Municipalities are prohibited from charging landlords (or any owner or
occupant of land) a fee because the police responded to a call for assistance related to an incident of
domestic violence, abuse, or stalking.
The new law applies to rental agreements entered into or modified after April 9, 2008.
Click here for the text of the new law.
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Access to Health Care in Wisconsin
Summary of
Health-Related Benefits Available to Seniors
This 225 page Manual discusses a wide range of programs, including Medicare (and
the drug prscription benefit), Medicaid, Medicare Supplemental Insurance, Family Care,
Senior Care, General Assistance Medical Programs, and many other types of insurance and
benefit programs.
Click here to download
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The Pathway Plan:
Setting the Course Toward Universal Health Care in Wisconsin
Follow this link to MEDICARE PART D: MYTHS AND MISINFORMATION FOR 2007 a
publication of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., a highly respected
advocacy organization located in Massachusetts
Click for Medicare Part D information for Wisconsin and for
Informational Presentations in Milwaukee County
Medicare and You -- 2007 The official Medicare handbook for participants.
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