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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. Updated and Revised in March 2009 by Attorney Korey Lundin of the Madison Office of Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc. this new version includes the new law requiring that in foreclosure actions the tenant be given notice. Click to View



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.

Access to Health Care in Wisconsin

The Pathway Plan: Setting the Course Toward Universal Health Care in Wisconsin

Medicare & You 2009

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