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Counter-moves under the ordinance book and the housing record

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AUDIT ROW #394 · FAIR-HOUSING AND LOCAL COUNTER-MOVES, TESTED AT REACHED STRENGTH

No Walkerton fair-housing ordinance, open-occupancy fight, or local counter-move stands in the records reached from this seat — and the row is closed as a named gap, not a negative, because the records that would hold one were identified but not exhausted. The settlers are named in their order: the Town of Walkerton's ordinance book (a fair-housing or human-relations ordinance would stand there beside the code the heritage leg read), and the South Bend Tribune's housing record for the town across the fair-housing decades. A town with almost no Black residents generated almost no housing politics in print — which is the demographic finding again — but "almost none in the records reached" and "none" are different sentences, and this section prints the first one.

Principal sources: settlers named — Town of Walkerton ordinance book; South Bend Tribune housing record for Walkerton.

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Source: Counter-moves under the ordinance book and the housing record, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/black-history/counter-moves-a-named-gap-under-the-ordinance-book/