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For countless years, Ohioans and Americans would put in racist clauses like this until the 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed them: [N]o part of said property or any portion thereof shall be. occupied by any person not of the Caucasian race, it being intended hereby to restrict the use of said property. by people of the Negro or Mongolian Race.
Such restrictions, used in concert with redlining to segregate neighborhoods, have no effect anymore. But they still remain in at least thousands of current Ohio property deeds as vestiges of a past era.
That could change soon.
As part of the state budget bill that became law this month, licensed real estate attorneys now have the legal backing to remove discriminatory covenants from future deeds whenever a property is sold or transferred.
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