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Causes: Homeless & Housing, Temporary Housing
Mission: To assist the housing authority of the city of milwaukee, the sole corporate member, and the redevelopment authority of the city of milwaukee in fulfillment of each of their statutory missions by providing construction management services and by managing housing options and certain commercial properties in an effort to improve urban neighborhoods and the lives of those who live in them. Additionally, the organization will provide development, construction, rehabilitation, and construction management services for other public housing authorities and other organizations described in 501(c)(3).
Programs: To acquire, develop, construct, rehabilitate, provide construction management services and manage a continuum of housing options: travaux is currently providing employees to the housing authority of the city of milwaukee (hacm) to manage low income public housing developments. Cost are reimbursed on actual expenditure basis. A senior executive and two maintenance personnel are currently assigned to hacm.
to provide development, construction, rehabilitation and construction management services for public housing authorities, private development projects and other 501 (c)(3) certified entities: travaux is currently providing consulting services to a chartered public school in milwaukee. Consulting services started in 2017. The services include assisting the organization with master planning of the school campus. Travaux assists the entity in choosing and selecting refutable firms necessary to do the master planning. This is expected to be done in 2019 and then will proceed in actual development as determined feasible.
to acquire, develop, construct, rehabilitate, provide construction management services and manage commercial properties in an effort to improve urban neighborhoods and the lives of those who live in them: travaux is currently the general contractor for two hacm projects with a total construction cost of $18,986,151 under a guaranteed maximum price contract. This was done to help hacm complete these two affordable housing projects within the budget as bids from private general contractors were coming in 40% above budget. Travaux is not expected to generate any profit on these 2 projects.