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Thurston County highlights fair-housing work as auditor expands removal of racially restrictive covenants
Summary
The Thurston County Board of County Commissioners proclaimed April 2025 as Fair Housing Month and heard county auditors and real-estate leaders describe an outreach program that identified and is helping remove racially restrictive covenants from property records.
The Thurston County Board of County Commissioners proclaimed April 2025 as Fair Housing Month on April 29, and county leaders used the presentation to describe an ongoing effort by the auditor’s office to help homeowners remove racially restrictive language from recorded property covenants.
The auditor’s office said an initial local outreach identified roughly 300 parcels with recorded restrictive covenants and that new research using the county’s digital recorded-documents archive and an outside review expanded the count to “more than 1,600” parcels across 35 subdivisions. Thurston County Auditor Mary Hall said the county offers a free modification service to clean chain…
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