When comparing homes to buy, you may discover that some communities have restrictive covenants in place. These housing rules are most common in condominiums, townhomes, planned communities and ...

So-called “restrictive covenants,” forbidding the sale or rental of real estate to people based on their race or ethnicity, were commonplace in the middle of the 20th century, and many current real ...

February 17, 2022 - Restrictive covenants were once the exclusive province of the common law in each state. That is no longer the case. So far, the applicable law remains state law (although there are ...

In 1993, Kathy Wurzer and her husband were looking for a fixer-upper – a house the couple could put their mark on. They found it in a quaint, tree-lined subdivision in Whitefish Bay. She and her ...

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Their land is bound forever. The deeds of three homeowners—Pastor Timothy Williams, Aretha Wright and Page Jones—all living in the historically Black Shiloh community of south ...

Pete is managing shareholder of the firm’s Chicago office. He counsels employers on a wide variety of workplace challenges, including protecting trade secrets and other valuable information and ...

A significant number of Ann Arbor suburbs and individual houses have racially-restrictive sections in their covenants — which bar people of color, particularly Black Americans, from home ownership — ...