A city of Milwaukee commission endorsed selling 7 acres to build tiny houses for veterans despite protests from a local business group that the city-owned land should instead be saved for a job-creating industrial development.
Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin is seeking approval to buy a portion of about 40 acres on the city-owned Bacher Farms property on North 60th Street, north of Mill Road. That land has sat vacant for years under city ownership, and the Havenwoods Economic Development Corp.…