US Homeowners Fight Racial Bias in Buy Contracts

Written by Healthy Smart Homes Inc.,

When Rachel Rintelmann closed on her Washington-area home a few years ago, something caught her eye: a paragraph in her deed had been crossed out with a quick X, written in pen. It restricted who could “use or occupy” the house, allowing “no person of any race other (than) the Caucasian race”.

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