to have nature and community gardens.
Welcome to Shorelines in his Ar,
where the selling point
has always been the view.
I never get tired of the view, and I'm
only so grateful to my husband. Winona
Holland. Tag and her husband John, have
lived here since getting married in 1978.
Today, she's learning how to ply
tennis at the neighborhood cour.
It allows you just to feel
free and your own. Community.
But had she met John 10 years earlier,
Winona would not have been
able to live in in this ardent.
When it was established in the 1940s,
developers sold it as a restricted community.
The fine print made it
clear in black and white.
No person other than one of the
white or Caucasian race shall be
permitted to occupy any propert,
it said. No blacks, no Jews,
no Asians. It was designed to
keep White America white. And
it wasn't just NS Arden.
State funded research has identd
hundreds of neighborhoods,
almost 50,000 homes all across the state,
with covenants containing
racially restrictive language.
The whites only practice
was outlawed in 1968,
but the wording remains on the books.
Not at NS Arden though,
thanks to work done by Winona.
And her neighbors who fought
to erase the racist language.
It concerns
me. It makes my heart sad for te
fact that people were missing o,
missing out on the opportunity
to really appreciate and value
people of other cultures.
Home ownership is the gateway
to the American Dream and
intergenerational wolf building.
The history of the covenants haw
prompted legislators to take ac.
You may not have heard,
but this is the first in the na.
Statewide reparations bill
Lawmakers say it is time for the
state to pay up for its racist .
Let's celebrate signing this bi,
which I'm doing happily with you. The
new law creates a $100 documente
added to the purchase of every .
The funds raised will pay for dn
payments and closing costs for t
time home buyers who either livn
the state when the restrictionse
legal before 1968 or their descendants.
And it's considered a loan 1.
The homeowners must pay back toe
state if that first home is res.
It finally
puts me in the game.
Lesha, Lucas, and her children Evan and
Kennedy all qualify for the new loan.
My dad's side of the family
moved up here in 1963, so they
experienced things that I would.
I don't think I'd be able
to take owning a home
is everybody's dream.
And as a single mother,
a black mother to two beautiful children,
I mean, I feel like this is
what I'm supposed to do.
This summer, the Lucas's are mog
into a new home in West Seattle
built by Habitat for Humanity,
Seattle, King County.
She's glad more doors will be opening
in the very same communities her
grandparents were shut out from.
I wish that they could hear tha.
You know, at least Washington State is
taking that step in the right direction.
And your great grandkids,
they won't go through what you went through.
Their struggles are helping you. Yeah,
I'm believing that this is a
chance to start moving forward.
Racism is something Winona Holld
Tag has dealt with all her life.
This is me, right on the end.
Once bust from the Central district to an
all white elementary school in Laurelhurst,
she's now living her best life n
a place that once didn't want h.
I have always seen the promise.
I've seen the promise.
I've advocated for the promise.
And now? Today we saw the signig
and we are a part of the promis,
drew Mickelson, KING5 News.