Contra Costa County officials must go through 28 million property documents to purge the “racist covenants”, statements saying only Caucasians can live in or buy the property.
Bay Area counties are now following new state law to purge all the racist language they're now finding in old documents, mostly from the 40s and 50s.
“We found in one case, the buyer freaked out and said ‘what kind of garbage is this?’ And showed me a screenshot that said, ’no person other than Caucasian can be on this property,’” said realtor David De Leeuw. County officials said courts have ruled this restrictive covenant language is illegal and now, as they discover the lines in old documents, the county will redact them making them completely unreadable.
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