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Deputy Rochester City Attorney Tran Nguyen always thought she'd return to her mountain roots after moving to Minnesota for law school. But after a nearly decade in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Nguyen said she's fallen in love with the people and chosen family she's built in Minnesota.
The city of Minneapolis is taking steps to eradicate a practice made illegal decades ago, but effects of which are still felt in neighborhoods across the city. Minneapolis residents can now expunge racial covenants placed on their homes for free, thanks to the new Just Deeds Program. In a city with some of the largest disparities in homeownership by race, experts say more can — and should — be done to close the homeownership gap that racial covenants caused. “I think [these practices] began our journey of seeing our white prosperity flow and flourish, and Black prosperity and then the p...