Researchers map racist housing restrictions in Tucson
The new interactive map compiles 56 years of race-based neighborhood covenants.
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Researchers map Tucson's history of race-restricted neighborhoodsUniversity of Arizona researchers have mapped more than 200 Tucson subdivisions with racist housing restrictions in their founding documents.
It will now be easier for neighborhood associations to get rid of race-based housing restrictions outlawed in the 1960s but still on the books.
The San Clemente neighborhood is the latest Tucson subdivision to amend its founding documents to remove racist language from the dark days of institutional housing discrimination in America.
