Christine Thompson is eager to leave the two bedroom apartment she rents in a shabby house on the north side of Milwaukee. There are so many things wrong with the place. “In the bathroom I

have to turn my shower on in order for the light to come on. And when I turn the shower off, the light goes off,” she says. The apartment also has mice, cockroaches, and so many bedbugs that

she and her sons — ages 3 and 7 — sleep on an air mattress on the dining room floor, where’s there’s no carpet. She also has no oven or stove, and water leaking from the ceiling. READ THIS

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