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Rental Unit Licensing: Applicability to Milwaukee

This report was prepared to provide Milwaukee’s Department of Management and Budget and Department of Neighborhood Services (DNS) with an analysis of the concept of rental unit licensing as an alternative to current rental housing inspection programs. The major policy that currently addresses rental housing quality is the complaint-driven system, in which tenants may file complaints with DNS about deficiencies in the quality of their rental housing. Under that system, inspections of the interior of rental units are conducted only in response to complaints. With rental unit licensing, however, all city landlords would pay a required business operating license and many rental units would be subject to mandatory periodic inspections. Mandatory inspections could lead to improved housing quality.