When comparing homes to buy, you may discover that some communities have restrictive covenants in place. These housing rules are most common in condominiums, townhomes, planned communities and ...

So-called “restrictive covenants,” forbidding the sale or rental of real estate to people based on their race or ethnicity, were commonplace in the middle of the 20th century, and many current real ...

The Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) and Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (the “DOJ”) (together the “Agencies”) continue to carry out the Biden Administration’s stated mission to ...

Covenants among real estate owners barring sale of their property to members of various racial and religious groups have “spread with epidemic speed throughout the land,” and if they are unchecked ...

Your home or property in Whatcom County may have a restrictive covenant that says only white people are allowed to own or occupy it. But a new law aims to help property owners fix that. A state law ...

A Raleigh developer wants to build 12 four-story townhouses at 524 and 528 Barksdale Drive in east Raleigh’s Woodcrest subdivision. The city has approved the project but Steve Sypher, owner of Steve ...

For generations, people have long debated: Is a taco a sandwich? In a recent decision, a judge in Fort Wayne, Indiana weighed in and ruled that a taco is, in fact, a sandwich. While this particular ...

SANTA ROSA -- Sonoma County is seeking proposals to help the county recorder identify, report and redact illegal racist restrictions originally printed in over 24 million previously recorded real ...

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, and Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, today sent a joint appeal to Governor ...

Councilwoman Inga Selders stands in front of her childhood home where she currently lives with her family in Prairie Village, Kan. Selders stumbled upon a racially restrictive housing covenant in her ...