Brown Deer

When she eyes the prices of homes for sale in Brown Deer — many approaching $300,000 for one-story midcentury homes — she knows she has to wait.

She lives in Brown Deer, Wis., a suburb just outside Milwaukee, where some 12,000 people live in modest ranch houses and condo complexes with swimming pools.

But for Ms. Kelly, homeownership in Brown Deer is still out of reach.

Since then, Brown Deer has attracted more Black families, after a program began allowing Milwaukee residents to attend its public schools.

During the ordeal, a Brown Deer Police Department K-9 squad was struck but the dog and officers were not hit.