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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 …

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St. Paul Steps Up: City Begins Discharging Racial Exclusions From Deeds

A racial covenant is language in a real estate deed that puts homes off-limits to certain buyers. It could say the deed may not be conveyed to particular social groups, such as Black, Asian, or Jewish people. Recently, St. Paul leadership joined a coalition to remove racial exclusions from Minnesota property deeds. Aptly, it’s called …

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States Scrub Racial Deed Restrictions From the Records

Missouri’s on a mission — to end racial deed restrictions. Its new law would require deletions of language regarding anyone’s race, religion or national origin from any deeds recorded from now on. Some Missouri homes have deed language that dates back a century, barring people from groups “other than the Caucasian race” from buying or …

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Transforming Real Estate Law: Nationwide, a Quest for Racial Fairness Gains Ground

Racial fairness is undergoing significant progress in real estate law this year — particularly in the area of confronting offensive deed restrictions. In some notable updates for 2021-2022, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Texas are confronting tackling race-based covenants in deeds. Parallel provisions are already available in a handful of states, including Florida, Maryland, …

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Update on Black Real Estate Wealth Trends in 2023

In the Black community today, just one in every five households can afford to shift from renting to buying the median priced U.S. home. That’s according to the National Association of REALTORS®. NAR says Black homeownership is down over the past decade, and lagging behind that of other groups. The trend will not reverse itself …

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Robots Against Racism: New Tech Detects Old Prejudice in Deeds

On July 28, 2022, Joshua Browder tweeted: Today, we are announcing a new DoNotPay product to fight institutional racism, by removing racist language from millions of original housing deeds and HOA documents… Joshua Browder is founder and CEO of DoNotPay, the “robot lawyer” company putting computers to work for consumer rights. DoNotPay is urging Californians …

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Race Restrictions Still Appear on Deeds. There’s a Movement Afoot to Delete Them.

Imagine the shock of reading your deed carefully and finding this rule: “This property shall not be resold, leased, rented or occupied except to or by persons of the Aryan race.” The Seattle-based Windermere Real Estate company doesn’t want to put up with such findings any more. This year, it’s working with its clients to use Washington state …

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Facing Up to Discriminatory Deed Language: What Pennsylvania Did

With everything that’s happening in the world, maybe more needs to be said about what the Pennsylvania Senate did in December. Every senator agreed to pass state Rep. Justin Fleming’s H.B. 1289, enabling homeowners to publicly condemn offensive language in deed covenants. The new law 1289 makes it cheap or free, and very simple to …

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Washington State’s Path to Fair Housing: The 2024 Recording Fee Increase and Covenant Homeownership Program

Beginning January 1, 2024, Washington State implemented a substantial revision to its recording fees, significantly affecting the real estate sector. This modification entailed a $100 increase in the recording fee for each document, aligning with the Covenant Homeownership Program assessment as outlined in RCW 36.22.185. This hike is applicable to a broad array of documents, …

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Fair Appraisals Matter—To the White House, and to Us

Have you heard about PAVE? Most people haven’t. It stands for Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity. When it comes to homeownership, fair appraisals are not just a matter of numbers—they’re a cornerstone of equity and financial prosperity. Enter PAVE. This initiative, championed by the White House, is more than just an acronym; it’s a pivotal …

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