Brookfield Mayor Jeff Speaker Remains Milwaukee Absentee Landlord Scofflaw
Ah, regional cooperation: ain't it grand?
The Mayor of Brookfield, one Jeff Speaker, will miss a City of Milwaukee deadline to finish repairing code violations on a low-income property that is not turning out to be the smarty-pants investment he thought it'd be.
There's so much tongue-wagging and finger-pointing from some suburbs towards Milwaukee. "Why don't those people take better care of their neighborhoods? Why don't those people fix up their homes?"
So what's to be done when one of those people is actually the Mayor of Brookfield?
Find that proverbial book and throw it at him.
Milwaukee doesn't need this kind of absentee landlord, and as a public official and Mayor, Speaker should know and behave better.
2 comments:
Yeah, it's a real shame that an elected official of all people would end up as a scofflaw.
But you bring up a good point - the real problem with so many of the neighborhoods in the Central City is the lack of homeowners. Far too many properties are owned by absentee landlords who really aren't interested in putting money into their properties, so they do the bare minimum amount of upkeep.
I'm willing to bet that if home ownership increased in those neighborhoods, you'd see things change for the better.
No offense Zach, but home ownership increases was the goal of the no-doc loan fiasco. Apparently that little strategy did not pan out so well.
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