“The privacy, the chance to rest, the chance to just be yourself.”
That’s what an apartment at St. Anthony’s Place gave 58-year-old Michael Daniel, who had been homeless for more than a year and displaced for more than a decade.
Daniel said he often felt out of place as a drifter. He said he hadn’t done drugs or drank his money away — “I fell through the holes in society’s safety net,” he said.
But it hadn’t always been that way.
The Franklin native used to live on his family’s homestead until flooding in 2008 made it unlivable. He tried to rebuild in 2009 but lacked the money and the home was eventually condemned.
Michael Daniel, 58, is one of the residents at St. Anthony’s Place. The former St. Anthony Hospital building in Milwaukee was converted to a 60-unit apartment serving homeless and displaced residents.
