The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) is in hot water again. This time, for not paying its portion of rent for hundreds of tenants in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, leaving both renters and landlords in financial limbo.
TMJ4 has been investigating HACM for years. A tenant on a Section 8 voucher, Crystal Brame, called the newsroom asking for help after she said HACM hadn’t paid its portion of rent in months.
Brame’s been on a voucher for a little over a year now. Her lease was set to be renewed in June…