South Milwaukee OKs fair housing ordinance, freezes police and fire pay

Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 12:03 p.m.
South Milwaukee — The city has a new fair housing ordinance and new contracts with its police officers and firefighters that essentially provide no pay raises in 2010 and 2% raises in 2011.The Common Council approved all three actions Tuesday.The ordinance creates a process for making housing discrimination complaints and a board to hear them.The city has been accused of housing discrimination in its handling of the Lake Bluff apartment complex, which houses many minority residents. The city opposed the apartments when they were proposed and has since tried to raze the complex, which was built in 1995.


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