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1
I may be mistaken (I often am) but weren't HOA's originally started with the explicit reason of pooling resources for insurance and such, but with the implicit reason of making sure that racist homeowners can keep out races they're terrified of?
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Of course they can't use racial language. That's illegal. But it makes me wonder if the realtors selling those houses conspire to sell only to white people, in coordination with homeowners? There ought to be an investigation.

@ 1, you may be right. I'm sure you are at least partially correct. Covenants used to explicitly exclude pretty much anyone who wasn't a WASP.
3
I was a child there when white flight started. It was all about fear. But mostly about fear their property values would decline. Which is exactly what happened when they started scrambling to get out. I was also in the white burbs when MLK was murdered. People talked about getting on their roofs with shotguns. All about fear.
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In the late '90s I bought a house built in 1949 in a suburb east of Oakland. The covenant had a paragraph that had been blacked out. My agent told me what it had contained, saying, "Yeah, this is where a lot of people moved after Berkeley integrated its public schools."

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