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The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) has received numerous awards from different programs, individuals, magazines, and more. Since 1993, Hope VI - which is a program developed as a result of recommendations by National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing - has awarded HACM with 6 grants, collaboratively totaling $150,200,000.

In 1998, the mayor of Milwaukee presented HACM with the Mayor’s Design Award for Parklawn’s Monument Park. The new park features a gazebo, restoration and exhibit of the original WPA limestone statues, and historical storyboards. In 2012, the HACM Commissioner, Sherri Daniels, along with Milwaukee’s Mayor Tom Barrett and others joined the Boys & Girls Club youth in celebrating a grant of $15,000 to expand a financial education program.

Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) awarded HACM with tax credits to revitalize different locations. In 2002, WHEDA along with HOPE VI awarded HACM with $26 million in tax credits to revitalize Lapham Park. In June of 2010, “WHEDA awarded HACM the single largest allocation of low income housing tax credits in WI history, $73 million over ten years, for the revitalization of Westlawn.”

Specific HACM locations have received recognition and awards throughout their existence. Hillside Terrance has been recognized and awarded from organizations such as the Architectural Record magazine and the Congress of New Urbanism. Lapham Park’s venture has won several awards including “finalist for the 2000 Innovations in American Government award, the 2004 National Social Advocacy Award from the American Planning Association, and the 2007 Gold Award for Municipal Excellence from the National League of Cities.” Parklawn, Olga Village, and Westlawn has also been awarded contracts and recognition from their projects.

World Leadership Award, Hope VI, Best Practice Awards