Let’s talk about this City’s history with #exclusionary #land use and zoning laws. #Redlining
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Across the country, including Seattle, #racially #restrictive housing covenants became common in the 1920s. Those covenants were challenged in the courts and in 1926 our U.S. Supreme Court put a stamp of approval on those racially restrictive covenants.
Layered on top of these covenants were financial lending policies that prevented the sale of a single-family home located in a racially restricted area from being sold to a non-white person. This is how #redlining came to be in #Seattle and across the Country.
The effect of these widespread, #racially-motivated practices is still felt in every major city across the country today.
Let me be clear: I am not calling anyone a racist.
I am, however, calling out the #reality that we are living in a city that has a #history of implementing and preserving #housing laws design to keep certain people out of certain areas of the city.
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