GET ME REWRITE: Time for Wisconsin's GOP legislative leadership to step up and ban discriminatory housing covenants

 

Photos:  Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin Assembly

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,2/9/2023

Originally proposed by the city's equity and inclusion commission, the Racial Covenant Resolution urges Gov. Tony Evers and state legislators to enact laws that would remove, or make it easier for property owners to remove, racist and antisemitic language that once banned Black and Jewish people from living in certain areas. 

"This is a vestige of a very bad and dark time in this city," said Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride before the council's vote. "I compared this to pulling down our Confederate statues, which we do not have. We're pulling down these." 

Ald. Joe Phillips told the council on Tuesday that Rep. Robyn Vining is working on legislation to be introduced in the Wisconsin State Assembly. 

Restrictive covenants became unenforceable in 1948 and were specifically made illegal after the Fair Housing Act in 1968, but the damage they caused can't be erased. That's why education from projects like Mapping Racism and Resistance, which aims to document and map restrictive covenants in Milwaukee County, is key, said Ald. Margaret Arney.

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