A shuttered northeast Wisconsin anti-poverty nonprofit filed for bankruptcy this month, as Gov. Tony Evers urges the federal government to transfer its housing grants to other agencies.
Newcap abruptly closed at the end of March, laying off 90 employees and leaving more than 100 households at risk of losing housing. For 60 years, the agency had been providing services to low-income residents in 10 counties.
Its services included home weatherization, housing for people with low-incomes and people with disabilities in properties Newcap either owned or leased, homeless shelters in Shawano and Green Bay, as well as health clinics and food pantries…