United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County kicks off Homelessness Awareness Week

Joined by city and community leaders, the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County began Homelessness Awareness Week, an initiative dedicated to increasing public education on the current state of housing insecurity across our area. “We treat homelessness like it's inevitable, like it's something that you have to live with, and it just is not. The cure for homelessness is housing,” said Amy Lindner, President & CEO, United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County. To that effort, leaders say the work of the Milwaukee Continuum of Care, a network of more than 100 organizations, including social workers and healthcare providers, is making huge strides in getting nearly 12,000 area residents off the street for good.