Enjoins Towne Reality, Inc. Ordered to End Racially Discriminatory Practices

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September 27, 1977

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COPY TO REAL ESTATE EDITOR 

NEH YORKs SEPT. 27 -- A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS ENTERED AN ORDER 
PROHIBITING A NATIONAL AND MULTI-NATIONAL REAL ESTATE COMPANY FROM 
ENGAGING IN RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN THE SALE OF HOUSING 
IN MILWAUKEE AND THE CITY'S VIRTUALLY ALL-WHITE SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES: 
TT HAS ANNOUNCED TODAY BY JACK GREENBERGs DIRECTOR-COUNSEL OF THE 
RARCP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND. 

THE CONSENT ORDERs SIGNED BY CHIEF JUDGE JOHN HW. REYNOLDS: EASTERN 
DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN: ENJOINS TOWNE REAL TYs INC.s MITH HEADQUARTERS 
IN HILMAUKEEs FROM DENYING ANY DWELLING TO ANY PERSON BECAUSE OF RACE 
OR COLORs BARS DISCRIMINATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF SALE OR 
FINANCINGs AND PROHIBITS THE COMPANY FROM ENGAGING IN RACIAL 
STEERINGs - THE PRACTICE OF STEERING BLACK BUYER T@ BLACK NETGHBOR- 
HOGDS AND WHITE PURCHASERS TO WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS. 

THE DECREE ALSO PROHISITS DIRECT CANVASSING OF WHITE RESIDENTS 
LIVING IN INTEGRATED OR TRANSITIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ISs THE USE 
OF HAIL: TELEPHONE OR PERSONAL SOLICITATION TO @NDUCE PANICK SELLING 
AND FACILITATE THE CREATION OF SEGREGATED HOUSING PATTERNS. 

THE COURT-APPROVED AGREEMENT ADDITIONALLY CALLS FOR A STRONG 
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAN INCLUDING AVAILABILITY OF LISTINGS WITHOUT 
REGARD TO RACEs AND THE RACIAL COMPOSITION GF THE AREA IN HICH 
DHELLINGS ARE LOCATED? THE RECRUITMENTs HIRING AND TRAINING OF 
MINORITY PERSONNELS AND ADVERTISING IN MINGRITY MEDIA OF HOMES 
LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN ARER. 

THE CONPARY HAS FURTHER ORDERED TO CONDUCTs IN CONJUNCTION 
HITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SHERMAN PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: 
AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ITS SALES PERSONNEL AND OTHER EMPLOYEES Te 
INFORM THEM OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE DECREE AND THEIR DUTIES UNDER 
THE FAIR HOUSING LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SHERMAN PARK GROUP 
RECEIVED $7500: IN PARTs TO DEFRAY COSTS OF MONITORING THE DECREE. 

THE COURT'S ORDERs FOLLOWING NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT WITH 
TOWNE REALTYs STEMMED FROM AN ACTION BROUGHT THIS PAST 
SUNMER-AGRINST FOUR MNILWRUKEE REALTORS BY THE LEGAL DEFENSE 
FUND GN BEHALF QF THE SHERNAN PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, @-FAIR 
HOUSING GROUPs AND 39 MILMAUKEE RESIDENTS. THE CASE AGRINST THE THREE 
CTHER FIRES IS PENDING. 
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*NOTE TO EDITOR -- THE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND 
1S A COMPLETELY SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONs THOUGH FOUNDED BY THE 
RARCP IN 1939/7 
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(CONTACT--NORMAN BLOGMFIELD QR BUD PATTERSON OF NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE 
AND EDUCATIONAL FUND AT 242-586-8397 OR PERCY L. JULIAN AT 
608-255-6400 FOR THE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND/ 
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