Mapping Housing Discrimination: Creating a Public Database of Historic Records
This Act establishes a grant program for educational institutions to analyze, digitize, and map historic housing discrimination records, such as racial covenants in property deeds, dating back to 1850. The primary goal is to create a national, free, and publicly accessible database, allowing citizens to understand historical segregation patterns in their communities. Local jurisdictions receiving funds for digitization must make those records publicly available at no cost.
Key points
A national, free database of historic housing discrimination patterns (e.g., racial covenants) will be created and made publicly available to all citizens.
Grants will be awarded to universities to map and digitize old property deeds and local discriminatory ordinances.
Local governments compensated for digitizing records must ensure those documents are made publicly available free of charge.
Status:
Expired
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