evidence: Starting in 2011, state lawmakers and then-Gov. Scott Walker chipped away at renter protections while strengthening the powers of landlords. [...] David Tomblin, the head of Highgrove Holdings, a California company that owns hundreds of low-income rentals in Milwaukee, said his company opted not to buy Anchor's properties because of the extensive rehabilitation they would require. [...] But increased fines and fees have been driving good landlords like him out of the city, according to Hoff. Ever since George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, the city has become more violent, more corrupt, he said. And his profit was shrinking every year. So he had decided to take the final step of his Milwaukee business plan: getting out.