A couple found their dream home in Stockton, California, but were shocked by a racist clause hidden within the documents. Pictured: Californian suburb in Rincon Valley.
Legislators attempted to stamp out this practice with the introduction of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, banning discrimination based on race, religion and nationality. But even as recently as the 2000s, residents have been subjected to these antiquated and racist clauses.describes a court case between buyer Nealie Pitts, an African American, and seller Rufus Matthews on the basis of a 1944 deed on the property restricting sales to people of Caucasian descent.
"Nearly seventy years after Shelley and sixty years after the enactment of the Fair Housing Act, racially restrictive covenants are still common features of deed instruments," Nancy Welsh, a dual Juris Doctor and Master of Urban and Regional Planning candidate at the University of Michigan, said in"Racially restrictive covenants continue to inflict on our society, particularly within our communities of color.
Shocking!
Land of the free
A lot of California buildings have these kinds of covenant statements in them dating to the pre-Civil Rights Era. I think Diane Feinstein got in trouble for unknowingly living in such a building once. These clauses aren’t enforceable, but they should be cleaned off the books.
Lawsuit time.
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