Gov. Evers: Announces statewide initiatives to ensure safe, affordable rental units and housing

Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov Governor’s plan improves rental unit safety, rehabilitates blighted properties, expands renter protections  MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced a statewide plan to ensure safe, affordable housing and rental units in his 2023-25 biennial budget proposal. The governor’s plan includes a comprehensive, multi-pronged package of initiatives designed to address the unique challenges facing Wisconsin renters, including renovating existing housing, improving rental unit safety, providing legal aid for evictions, and expanding renter protections. The announcement today builds on the governor’s previous investments during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure Wisconsinites continued to have access to secure, stable housing. In 2021, Gov. Evers created the Wisconsin Emergency Rental Assistance (WERA) program, which provided rental and utility payment assistance to lower-income households to

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Gov. Evers: To deliver on promise of 10-percent middle-class tax cut

Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov Governor’s budget to deliver more than $1.2 billion in targeted tax relief to working families, parents, veterans, caregivers, seniors, and student loan borrowers Relief for working families supported by provisions limiting tax giveaways to wealthy earners MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced provisions in his 2023-25 biennial budget that will deliver on the governor’s promise made last August to fight for a 10-percent middle-class tax cut. The plan aims to build upon income tax cuts signed by Gov. Evers since taking office that have returned $1.4 billion annually to taxpayers by delivering more than $1.2 billion in targeted tax relief to working families, parents, veterans, caregivers, seniors, and student loan borrowers, among others, while limiting tax giveaways to wealthy earners. “I promised

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Gov. Evers: Announces statewide initiatives to ensure safe, affordable rental units and housing

Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov Governor’s plan improves rental unit safety, rehabilitates blighted properties, expands renter protections  MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced a statewide plan to ensure safe, affordable housing and rental units in his 2023-25 biennial budget proposal. The governor’s plan includes a comprehensive, multi-pronged package of initiatives designed to address the unique challenges facing Wisconsin renters, including renovating existing housing, improving rental unit safety, providing legal aid for evictions,

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Gov. Evers: To deliver on promise of 10-percent middle-class tax cut

Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov Governor’s budget to deliver more than $1.2 billion in targeted tax relief to working families, parents, veterans, caregivers, seniors, and student loan borrowers Relief for working families supported by provisions limiting tax giveaways to wealthy earners MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced provisions in his 2023-25 biennial budget that will deliver on the governor’s promise made last August to fight for a 10-percent middle-class tax cut. The plan aims to build

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