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Danvers advocates press for affordable units, spotlight 'dirty deeds' and a bill to strip racist covenants
Summary
Affordable-housing presenters reviewed local housing data, promoted a Maple Square lottery of remaining affordable units and described historic racially restrictive deed language; advocates urged support for S.1080, a Massachusetts bill to let homeowners remove discriminatory language from property records.
At the Dec. 18 meeting of the Town of Danvers Human Rights and Inclusion Committee, local housing advocates laid out data on affordability and described historic discriminatory restrictive covenants discovered in deed records — often called "dirty deeds" — and urged local engagement and state-level action.
Lisa Silva, a member of the Danvers Affordable Housing Trust, presented town-specific housing statistics, noting a rise in median household income to about $116,000 while warning the figure is skewed by high earners. "The median house price in Danvers right now is about $670,000," Silva said, and she described sharp increases in listing…
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