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Sue Vinton, the bill’s sponsor, explained the ban had gone into place in 2022 because the Big Sky Country MLS petitioned the state to withdraw support for online FSBO postings.
A bill that would give owners more autonomy over their rental units has been passed out of committee in the Ohio House of Representatives. The House Local Government Committee held its fourth and final hearing recently before passing it by a vote of 9-4.
For countless years, Ohioans and Americans would put in racist clauses like this until the 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed them: "[N]o part of said property or any portion thereof shall be... occupied by any person not of the Caucasian race, it being intended hereby to restrict the use of said property... by people of the Negro or Mongolian Race." Such restrictions, used in concert with redlining to segregate neighborhoods, have no effect anymore. But they still remain in at least thousands of current Ohio property deeds as vestiges of a past era. That could change soon. As part of the ...