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COMPLAINT
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EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
MILWAUKEE AMERICAN INDIANS ICE HOUSING SENIOR UNITED STATES CITY DEFENDANT COMMON COUNCIL DISCRIMINATORY ACTIONS DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD SISTERS FRANCIS ALDERWOMAN RESIDENTS ZONING PLAN WISCONSIN ALDERMANIC DISTRICT COMPLEXES SENIOR CITIZENS ALDERWOMAN SCHERBERT REZONING OPPOSITION ZONING REQUEST UNLAWFUL CIVIL ACCEPTANCE |
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
Case No. 97-C-104
CITY OF MILWAUKEE,
Defendant.
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COMPLAINT
1. This action is brought by the United States of America to enforce
the provisions of the Fair Housing Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.
3601 et seq.
2. This Court has jurisdiction over this action under 28 U.S.C.
1345 and 42 U.S.C. § 3614.
3. Defendant City of Milwaukee is a governmental subdivision of the
State of Wisconsin, located in Milwaukee County, within the
Eastern District of Wisconsin. Milwaukee is governed by a Mayor
and a Common Council consisting of seventeen (17) alderpersons,
each elected by an aldermanic district.
4. The Indian Council of the Elderly, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation
in Milwaukee that was established to serve the American Indian
community of Greater Milwaukee by providing such services as meals
for elderly American Indians, preventative medical services,
counseling services and recreational activities.
5. The School Sisters of St. Francis and the Sisters of St. Francis
of Assisi are two Catholic religious orders located in the Greater
Milwaukee area that have experience in managing housing complexes
for senior citizens that receive funds from the United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
6. In or around 1990, the Indian Council of the Elderly, the School
Sisters of St. Francis, and the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi
(collectively, "ICE") sought to construct a senior center that
would consist of 49 apartment units of senior citizen housing and
a meal site in southwest Milwaukee for the benefit of American
Indian and other senior citizens.
7. In September 1993, ICE made an offer to purchase a 3.8 acre parcel
of land at 6031 West Howard Avenue ("the Howard site") in
Milwaukee, for the purpose of constructing the ICE senior center.
The Howard site is located adjacent to or across from several
commercial businesses, multifamily housing complexes, and single
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CONSENT ORDER
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EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
PRIVATE PLAINTIFFS HOUSING SENIOR PROJECT CONSENT ORDER FAIR HOUSING ACT UNITED STATES DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT RACE NATIONAL ORIGIN COURT MILWAUKEE CONSTRUCTION DISTRICT VIOLATION DISCRIMINATING ENTRY INDIAN COUNCIL ALLEGE PURSUANT WEST HOWARD AVENUE REZONING PARTIES REPORT COUNSEL BASIS CIVIL RIGHTS AUTHORIZES REZONING REQUEST |
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN
INDIAN COUNCIL OF THE
ELDERLY, INC., et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
Case No. 94-C-1156
CITY OF MILWAUKEE,
Defendant.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
Case No. 97-C-104
CITY OF MILWAUKEE,
Defendant.
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CONSENT ORDER
I. INTRODUCTION
These consolidated actions allege, in pertinent part, that the
City of Milwaukee ("City") denied a zoning change to permit the
construction and operation of a housing facility and meal site, in
violation of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601, et seq., by
discriminating on the basis of race or national origin against
American Indians.
On October 17, 1994, the Indian Council of the Elderly, Inc., the
Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi and the School Sisters of St.
Francis (together, the "private plaintiffs") brought this suit
against the City pursuant to Section 813 of the Fair Housing Act,
42 U.S.C. § 3613, as well as other civil rights statutes. The
private plaintiffs allege that the City denied a zoning change
necessary to permit the construction and operation of a senior
project that was to include forty-nine apartment units of
low-income senior citizen housing and a meal site for American
Indian and other senior citizens (the "senior project"), because
of the race or national origin of the prospective residents. The
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