NV: Lawmakers want to remove racist covenants from housing contracts
Kent Ervin, a homeowner in Reno and chemistry professor at UNR, said his 2015 purchase of a home built in 1930 forced him to sign a deal that included a racist covenant that bars anyone except a white or Caucasian person from owning, occupying or using the property.
He said he’s not alone — ACLU Nevada interns found that thousands of racist covenants exist in 31 subdivisions in Washoe County.
If SB368 passes, homeowners could soon petition a judge to remove historic racist housing covenants from their housing documents that made it forbidden for people who are not white to live in certain communities or buy homes. Upon determining whether the provision is void and unenforceable, a judge would issue a court order to county recorders to redact the voided language but retain the “original written instrument.”
“Let me be clear, history is important,” said Sen. Dallas Harris (D-Las Vegas), the bill sponsor. “And the existence of the language will not be scrubbed from history.”
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