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‘Whites only’ covenants on home titles can be removed

Real estate agent offers to help strip racist artifacts

A number of homes in the Edgemoor neighborhood
A number of homes in the Edgemoor neighborhood (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News)
By Kai Uyehara News Intern
Real estate agent Matt Goldman was stunned to discover racist covenants on property titles in the coveted Edgemoor neighborhood that once allowed only white homeowners.Now, he’s helping owners remove the restrictions that were outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948. “We're trying to grow as a community and be an inclusive community,” Goldman said. “This has no place on a home title.”Such covenants have remained in property titles across America, underscoring the country’s troubl

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