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Noon Wednesday: Homeless Funding Stuck in Senate

By Marisa Wojcik | Here & Now

January 22, 2020

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The Wisconsin Senate passed one of eight proposals to increase funding towards homeless services and prevention. Joe Volk, executive director of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness, joins us to talk about what the rest of the package of proposals aims to do, where it came from and why it’s caught up in the Senate.

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