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Milwaukee renters have launched an organized campaign aimed at removing one of the city’s biggest corporate property owners, according to a new investigative series by WUWM.<\/p>

The radio station’s reporters Sam Woods and Jimmy Gutierrez are documenting this tenant organizing effort in their series titled “How to Evict Your Landlord,” which chronicles how residents are banding together to challenge a major landlord in their community.<\/p>

The series explores the tactics and strategies being used by tenants as they work collectively to push back against corporate ownership of their housing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of Milwaukee renters has organized an effort to remove one of the city’s biggest corporate property owners from their buildings. WUWM reporters are documenting this tenant organizing campaign in a series called “How to Evict Your Landlord.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[834],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/news-1779574002212.png?fit=1%2C1&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtNqq-ivD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46772,"url":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/nyc-mayor-battles-bad-landlords-but-struggles-to-identify-property-owners\/","url_meta":{"origin":71153,"position":0},"title":"NYC Mayor Battles ‘Bad Landlords’ But Struggles to Identify Property Owners","author":"Admin","date":"April 3, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is hosting public hearings where tenants can voice complaints about substandard housing conditions. 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