restrictive covenants

• 
• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  5/12/2023
  

  Big Win for Victims of Restrictive Covenants

  by James Gregory

  Restrictive covenants and other housing policies created a housing market defined by racial segregation and locked generations of Black Americans out of wealth-building. Now courts frown on race-aware remedies for past discrimination. Has the state of Washington figured out a way around that to deliver reparations? 

• 
• SOURCE: NPR
  11/17/2021
  

  Unenforceable Racial Covenants are Still Part of Property Deeds Across America

  "I'd be surprised to find any city that did not have restrictive covenants," said LaDale Winling, a historian and expert on housing discrimination who teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

• 
• SOURCE: Minnesota Daily
  3/22/2021
  

  Minneapolis Homeowners Can Now Reject Racial Covenants On Their Deed

  Racial restrictive covenants have been legally unenforceable since 1948 and illegal under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but remain on the deeds of many older properties. A program in Minnesota allows homeowners to remove them. 

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/14/2020
  

  The Black Lives Next Door

  by Richard Rothstein

  Activism for racial justice will not succeed until activists recognize how residential segregation has been made into a normal feature of the American landscape and pressure the developers and banks who have profited from it to take restorative action.