A couple of things from recent and nearly-ancient history to add to Marc Eisen's op-ed about the Milwaukee region's segregated housing:
* Milwaukee County has been included in a suburban-and-exurban weighted regional planning commission which had to be forced by advocates and public pressure in 2009 to update by 2013 its 1975 regional housing plan.
Nearly 40 years between studies and recommendations.
* Note also that the Legislature in 1955 froze the City of Milwaukee's borders, land-locking the city and making it easier for suburbs to expand independently and enforce discriminatory zoning, housing patterns and job development patterns.
More here and here.
* The State Legislature led by GOP Racine County State Rep. and now-Assembly Speaker Robin Vos legally-barred the creation of service-sharing state regional transit authorities.
Waukesha County opinion makers also balked, Waukesha County government refused to join a transit authority with Milwaukee County and for good measure even eliminated a bus line connecting Milwaukee workers to Waukesha job opportunities.
Details, here.
The message to Milwaukee's heavily-minority working poor from the out-counties was and continues to be:
access to housing, schools and job opportunities is not a priority.
* Milwaukee County has been included in a suburban-and-exurban weighted regional planning commission which had to be forced by advocates and public pressure in 2009 to update by 2013 its 1975 regional housing plan.
Nearly 40 years between studies and recommendations.
* Note also that the Legislature in 1955 froze the City of Milwaukee's borders, land-locking the city and making it easier for suburbs to expand independently and enforce discriminatory zoning, housing patterns and job development patterns.
More here and here.
* The State Legislature led by GOP Racine County State Rep. and now-Assembly Speaker Robin Vos legally-barred the creation of service-sharing state regional transit authorities.
Waukesha County opinion makers also balked, Waukesha County government refused to join a transit authority with Milwaukee County and for good measure even eliminated a bus line connecting Milwaukee workers to Waukesha job opportunities.
Details, here.
The message to Milwaukee's heavily-minority working poor from the out-counties was and continues to be:
access to housing, schools and job opportunities is not a priority.
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