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Milwaukee County is on a mission to find 100 permanent homes for the homeless in 45 days. Outreach Services Manager Eric Collins-Dyke knows the name and story of almost every person living in the growing homeless encampments around the city. Group Posts Anti-Walker Signs Near Homeless EncampmentSometimes his team brings supplies and other days they clean up garbage, but their focus is finding homes for folks like Anthony who livesunder the Marquette overpass near 6th and Clybourn. Anthony has been on the streets on and off for years. This time I ve been out here straight for five months, said Anthony. Anthony said a real home could turn his life around. Once I stanley cup get an apartment yah know I m a pretty smart guy I might go back to school, said Anthony.Until then he s living in a tent community, close to food services and other resources. James Mathy, the Housing Administrator of Milwaukee County Housing Division said they deserve more. For us, it doesn t really matter whose land it is if it s state, or county, or city, the mission to us is permanent housing, said James Mathy.They re making this happen by giving the homeless housing vouchers, orsection 8. We are on pac stanley cup e to be the largest county in the nation to end chronic homel vaso stanley essness, said Mathy.The county has a 96 percent rate of keeping people in housing while jail time and hospital visits are going down. Our whole community has focused on the decriminalization of homelessness. So we have police officers and businesses th Onba Carthage College plans to cut tuition for the upcoming school year
A garden is planned in honor of one of the youngest victims of gun violence in our city. Nine-year-old Za Layia Jenkins was killed while watching television inside a family member s home near 15th and Meinecke. Now her aunt, Ramona Boone, wants something beautiful to replace the memory of the violence that took the young girls life.Her family is doing something to overs stanley cup hadow the tragedy that happened at the hous stanley quencher e in this neighborhood. Mom Still Believes stanley nz Ohio Woman is Alexis PattersonA space across the street from the home will soon transform into Za Layia s Legacy Garden, including purple flowers 鈥?her favorite color. The project is in collaboration with Peace Garden Project Milwaukee.It will be a place for her family and the community to heal. Twin Babies Get Heart Transplants Someone died in order for this to be here. She is missed each and every day. You cannot imagine a familys pain dealing with the loss of a young life, Boone said.Za Layia s mom, Destiny Boone, says the garden will be a place she can got to in order to stay close to her young daughter. It brings comfort, you know. So that Za layia can live forever, Destiny Boone said.As the plans come together for the garden, donations are already coming in. A place of peace for a little girl who was robbed of the chance to grow up.Groundbreaking for the garden is next month. Everyone will be invited to help plant flowers and get the garden started. Donations are being accepted on a GoFundMe page, or by contacting R