Tri-City residents can now verify if their property is tied to any covenants that historically prevented non-white residents from buying or living on the land.
A final tally by the Washington State Racial Restrictive Covenants Project identified 539 parcels in Benton County and 90 in Franklin County that had some form of racial covenants attached to them. Washington will soon become the first state in the nation to have identified, documented and mapped all of its racial covenants.
Read more at: https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article315347685.html
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