Legacies of racial discrimination lurk in the titles of many properties throughout King County. In Federal Way, 288 homes are likely to still have covenants with language limiting the race or religion of who can live on or own the property, although these covenants are not legally enforceable.

Federal Way City Council members took the first step to helping property owners remove that language from their property’s documents in a consent agenda item on Oct. 21.

Although cities can’t do anything to remove the language because individual property owners have to take those steps themselves, educating property owners can give them the opportunity to take the time to make that change.

The council voted to “provide property owners notification of historic race and faith restrictive property co

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