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Robbie Sequeira

Robbie Sequeira

Robbie Sequeira is a staff writer covering housing and social services for Stateline.

In some real estate deeds, U.S. homeowners are finding language forbidding the sale of their home and land to non-whites

States grapple with racist language in real estate deeds

By: - November 19, 2023

Lisa Boccetti is horrified by the restrictive covenant that is in the deed to her 1950s ranch house in Raleigh, North Carolina: It states that the land cannot be sold or occupied by Black people. The property “shall not be sold to negroes or to any person or persons of negro blood, and said premises shall […]

Residents of Montgomery County, Maryland, show up at council chambers in support of a rent control ordinance. In July, the county passed rent control measures, capping rent increases at 6%.

Some cities are pushing for rent control. They’re meeting resistance.

By: - August 6, 2023

With rents soaring since the COVID-19 pandemic tightened the housing supply, more local governments are considering rent control to keep increases in check and, ideally, protect struggling tenants whose incomes haven’t kept pace. At the same time, some states are enacting measures to prohibit cities from adopting rent control, a policy that has long divided economists and […]