LAKE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- When Nicole Sullivan moved into her neighborhood in unincorporated Mundelein about ten years ago she discovered a restrictive covenant in her property deed. It was written ...

Several states are moving to make it easier for homeowners to strike language in the fine print of home deeds that restricts sales to people of color. Racially restrictive covenants — legal contracts ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Some homeowners may find discriminatory and illegal language in their deeds, according to Monroe County Clerk Jamie Romeo. That language, called a restrictive covenant, is now the ...

Racial covenants were designed to keep neighborhoods segregated. Some states are now making it easier to erase them from legal documents. By Sara Clemence Last year, to celebrate the centennial of ...

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Their land is bound forever. The deeds of three homeowners—Pastor Timothy Williams, Aretha Wright and Page Jones—all living in the historically Black Shiloh community of south ...

The Chicago-based Uniform Law Commission is drafting model legislation to remove racial discriminatory and restrictive covenants in deeds across the country. Above: An aerial view of real estate ...

(TNS) — When journalist Jaime Lewis moved into her home in San Luis Obispo's Anholm District in 2018, her Realtor Dawna Davies pointed out one particular detail of the property deed. "No persons of ...

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — Professor Brittany Merritt Nash's honors history students at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University were familiar with racial covenants — clauses inserted into ...

Buried deep in the small print of deeds to a home that sold recently in this ritzy city lurks this stunning caveat: “Said premises shall not be rented, leased, or conveyed to, or occupied by, any ...

Even in Santa Clara County, home to many of the companies and centers of innovation that have earned Silicon Valley its name, governments often do things in an old-fashioned manner. So when California ...

We've had an offer accepted on a house which is being sold by the local diocese. However, the title deeds have given us cause ...