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Advocates urge blanket removal of racially restrictive covenants from deeds to acknowledge and repair historic exclusion
Summary
Housing advocates, including Harbor Light Homes, NAACP allies and CHAPA, urged passage of H.1762/S.1080 to remove void racially restrictive covenants from deeds statewide. Witnesses described a local "dirty deeds" mapping project that found hundreds of such covenants and argued a statutory remedy would be faster and more equitable than requiring
Advocates told the Joint Committee on the Judiciary that H.1762/S.1080, which would remove void racially restrictive covenants from property records, is an overdue statutory fix to a persistent reminder of historic exclusion.
"Removing these void restrictive covenants is more than a symbolic act," said Nancy Sanchez of Harbor Light…
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