AI Shows How Racial Covenants Affect Housing In America

AI Shows How Racial Covenants Affect Housing In America

In 2021, California passed a law requiring its 58 counties to create programs to find and remove racial covenants from property deed records. These covenants were used in the past to restrict property ownership or use based on race. However, this task is enormous—Santa Clara County alone has 24 million deed records spanning 84 million pages, dating back to 1850. To tackle this, some counties hired commercial vendors. Los Angeles County, for exam…