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Rent Increases
Rent Increase Form
The tenant portion of the rent is proportionate to the tenant’s reported income. When the tenant’s reported income goes up or down , the tenant’s portion goes up or down. If a tenant income goes up $100, tenant’s portion of the rent is going to go up $30, even if the landlord were to lower the rent.
Should the tenant not want to sign rent increase form, you can decide to keep tenant at current rate or give the tenant and HACM a 60 day notice that you will not renew the lease.
Submit rent increases to section8leasing@hacm.org. We are now acknowledging receipt of all documents sent to section8leasing@hacm.org. We will call you if the rent is too high. In the case you don’t hear from us and you do not see new amount reflected in the lease renewal, forward to Stephen.fendt@hacm.org the Rent increase email you previously sent in.
New Contracts
After a unit passes inspection, the file gets sent to a HACM lease and contract specialist to draw up lease amendment and HAP contract. Normally this should take no more than two weeks. However, if a tenant's income has not been verified within the last 120 days, the contract will be held until we are able to obtain the tenant's current income verifications.
Tenant Accountability
If a tenant is violating the lease agreement or not paying their portion of the rent, provide section8leasing@hacm.org a copy of the 30 day notice you give to tenant to and we will send the tenant a Warning letter.
Landlord Portal
Through the Landlord Portal you are able to access real time information from our system regarding inspections, payments and lease information. Please register if you have not yet done so. You will need a registration code to register, send Stephen.fendt@hacm.org your name and the last four of your tax id, and we will get the code to you.
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Due to the extremely limited availability of general rental assistance, Community Advocates will pause accepting new direct-aid rental assistance applications effective August 8, 2024.
Tenants will still be able to apply if they are facing:
The Milwaukee Rental Housing Resource Center will continue to offer assessment and eviction prevention resources, including referrals for mediation, conditions issues and case management.
The Supreme Court decision was amended. The change appears to better support open access.
The revision is the red text as shown below:
(c) 10 years from date of entry of final order or judgment for all eviction cases where a writ of restitution was granted against the defendant and no money judgment was entered;
The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) will close its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher and Public Housing waiting lists on August 1, 2024 at 4:00 pm CDT. Applications will be accepted at waitlist.hacm.org through August 1, 2024 at 3:59 pm CDT.
HACM will continue to accept applications for its Project-Based Voucher program and its unsubsidized properties.
The demand for housing assistance far exceeds the funding provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. As a result, there are currently thousands of people on HACM’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher and Public Housing waiting lists. Closing these waiting lists will help make the lists more manageable and give applicants more realistic expectations about how long they might wait before being selected.
Applicants on HACM’s waiting lists must keep their information current so HACM can reach them when they are selected. If HACM is not able to reach an applicant, they will be removed from the waiting list.
An announcement will be made when the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher and Public Housing waiting lists reopen. HACM announces waitlist openings via a public notice, its website hacm.org, social media, and press releases.
By Ryan Bourne and Sophia Bagley, CATO Institute
We recently examined a damning meta-analysis of the effects of rent control laws. Last week, we warned that Joe Biden’s proposal to cap rent increases of corporate landlords at 5 percent per year would have some of these deleterious consequences.
Well, a new survey for the Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets confirms this is all received wisdom among academics. We don’t need to analyze the results in detail here because the aggregated responses of the 45 economists are crystal clear in their conclusions.
Economists overwhelmingly think the Biden-Harris plan wouldn’t make Americans better off or reduce inequality, but would substantially reduce the supply of properties available for rent.
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From Milwaukee County Housing Services (includes Milwaukee County Rent Assistance).
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By Bob Pinnegar, CAE President and CEO of the National Apartment Association
You are probably aware of President Biden’s comment about rent control at his press conference following the NATO Summit last week. It was picked up by CNBC on Friday, July 12 with a segment that I participated in with former Governor and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean.
The rumors about an announcement of a nationwide rent control policy have continued to swirl around DC over the weekend. Today at 2:30 p.m., the Washington Post reported in the article reproduced below that on Tuesday, July 16, at a campaign stop in Nevada, the White House will be announcing that if reelected Biden will call for a 5% annual rent cap annually.
It appears that the intention is to tie the ability to depreciate assets to compliance with this new policy. According to the Post, the administration has declined to comment, which is consistent with our efforts to verify the rumors. Such an action would require action by Congress and would likely face an uphill battle. In my opinion, it is reflective of how desperate the President and his campaign staff are to reset the dialogue away from fitness for office to policy, no matter how outrageous it is.
We are prepared for the release of President Biden’s proposal and will issue a press release under the Housing Solutions Coalition (note that NAA is mentioned in paragraph 13 of the article below as an HSC member) as well as through our NAA channels tomorrow after the announcement. We will also insert it in the Industry Insider newsletter which has our highest readership if the timing permits. Now that this is in the public arena, I anticipate that Lester Holt will ask about it during the one-on-one interview that he is having with the President tonight. I anticipate that tomorrow will be a busy news day for us here at NAA and across the real estate industry.
10 Unintended Consequences of Rent Control Policies
By Atty Heiner Giese
I was told today by a staff member of the DNS Milwaukee's Rental Property Registration office that the form DNS-8, which is used to register a change in ownership of rental property, no longer needs to be notarized.
This is due to a change in state law eliminating the need for a notary on most court and government forms.
The form has not yet been updated but the staffer said the box for notarization of the owner's signature could simply be left blank.
By Attorney Heiner Giese
Dawn Anastasi, RPA Board member, alerted us to this announcement about new “tenant protections” by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
These tenant protections apply to multifamily properties where the loan application was submitted after the policy effective date, February 28, 2025. So it would not apply to owners who have existing federally-financed mortgages.
Note in particular the provision requiring a 5-day grace period for rent payments. Owners will not be allowed to charge a late fee during this grace period. This is also going to affect Wisconsin law regarding 5 and 14 day notices for nonpayment. For example, assume the lease says rent is due on the first. Assume the owner has a clause imposing a late fee after the 5th.
Say the tenant hasn’t paid for July, the owner has let it slide without issuing a 5-day notice and now August 1st rolls around without a payment and the owner wants to do a 5-day notice and then go ahead promptly with an eviction filing.
The owner will have to wait until August 6 to issue the 5-day.
If the tenant is month-to-month the 14 day notice without a right to cure is always effective where the tenant has behavior problems or is chronically late and the owner just wants them to move – a 14 day notice could be used effectively as of the 2nd or 3rd day of the month if no rent was paid. But now owners would have to wait at least 5 days before serving the 14 day notice.
Finally, if an owner has a per diem type of late fee, the first 5 days of delinquency couldn’t be charged.
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