{"id":19740,"date":"2023-06-06T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19740"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:03:53","slug":"racial-covenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/06\/06\/racial-covenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial covenants"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Two 2021 articles about racial covenants and attempts to remove them.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>Background: In many places across the US, many many homes still have racial covenants, specifying that (for example) they can be sold only to white people.<\/p>\r\n<p>Those covenants are unenforceable, and have been since 1948. But they\u2019re still listed on deeds and CC&Rs, and it costs a lot of time and money to remove or change them.<\/p>\r\n<p>A few states have passed laws that make it easier and cheaper to remove racial covenants, but not many.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>This NPR article talks about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/17\/1049052531\/racial-covenants-housing-discrimination\">history of racial covenants<\/a>, how they spread across the US, and some recent developments in trying to get them removed.<\/p>\r\n<p>Content warning for descriptions of various forms of racism.<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>One of the many harms that racial covenants have caused is that they helped prevent generational wealth from accruing.<\/p>\r\n<p>For example, in Ladera, California (near Stanford University), the first homes-to-be-built were sold in the 1940s, for $10,000 each (about $170k in 2023 dollars). Four of the families who bought lots there weren\u2019t white. In 1950, the land was sold \u201cto a developer with the total ban on non-white occupancy,\u201d which forced those four families to sell their lots. Today, homes in Ladera sell for about $3 million. (I may have a couple of details wrong here; apologies if so.)<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Reversing-redlining-One-Silicon-Valley-town-s-16623463.php#photo-21718586\">More about Ladera<\/a>, and attempts to remove the racial covenants there, in this <cite>San Francisco Chronicle<\/cite> article.<\/p>\r\n<p>Additional content warning for mentions of George Floyd\u2019s murder.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-race-ethnicity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19741,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740\/revisions\/19741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}