ARPA funding should go toward community, not police
Photo by Wes Tank courtesy of Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Through President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act, the City of Milwaukee will receive $397 million dollars, in two installments, to aid our pandemic recovery. With this, city officials have a huge opportunity to rebuild our communities in a people-oriented way.
The city received nearly half of its funding and designated much of it to the Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund, the demolition or renovation of 150 abandoned homes and new Westlawn Gardens developments. A large sum of this installment will also go to lead abatement.
Other spending areas are refurbishing the Martin Luther King branch of the Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission, Earn & Learn Youth Employment, as well as the city’s fire department and Office of Violence Prevention.
