At the end of March, the Arizona legislature unanimously passed legislation allowing homeowners to remove racist language in housing covenants that discriminate against Black, Latino, Asian, Jewish Arizonans and other
Fox Chapel started as a sundown town: a community that was intentionally all white. For its entire history, it has had a negligible Black population, and, for a long time, there were no Black homeowners.
The Phams said their realtor said it wasn't enforceable. But the words mattered. They advocated with the neighborhood's Property Owner's Association to get the law changed.
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