Albuquerque's racist history haunts its housing market (Albuquerque's racist gaslighting) — High Country News – Know the West
Policymakers and activists fight to remove pro-segregation, anti-immigrant provisions from property deeds. Wufei Yu March 15, 2021 From the print edition Five years ago, Albuquerque-born Lan Sena considered purchasing land at the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. She found a property in the Four Hills area, where elegant houses coexist with cholla cactus on rolling hills. A horrifying clause in the property’s covenant nauseated her. An aerial view of the Northeast Heights community in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1969. Racially restrictive covenants have still been found in t...
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