Tag: racial covenants
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Dane County, Wisconsin Event Helps Deed Holders Delete Racial Covenants
In June, a two-and-a-half-hour event took place at the Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall in Madison. The goal? To deal with harmful, racially motivated deed restrictions. Local leaders showed up — and led. Title professionals came to help deed holders fill out and record the document called “Discharge and Release of Discriminatory Restriction Affecting Real…
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Fairer Play: Counties Will Adopt AI to Delete Racial Deed Restrictions
Ever read through your deed and find a stink bomb like this? “The said premises shall not be sold to, owned, used or occupied by any person or persons other than those of the Caucasian race.” That’s a deed restriction placed on hundreds of Haverford Township, Pennsylvania titles in the 1920s, found by investigators at…
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Epic Heat? New Study Links Racial Deed Restrictions to Temperature Risk
What impact do racial covenants in property deeds have on heat-related health risks? You might be surprised. In a first-of-its-kind effort to answer this question, researchers looked at greater Minneapolis. They mapped out the places where homes have a history of white ownership, maintained by racial deed language. These historically exclusive neighborhoods are cooler, with…
