UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (KMOX) - A local real estate agent says it's time to change all the old neighborhood subdivision agreements that still include language to keep non-whites from owning property.
Maria Stewart, owner of Easy Real Estate On Line, says her client was buying a home in University City, and got a packet with disturbing documents from the 1940s, "In this particular one, it states no house, no land, no parcel could be rented, subleased, owned by anyone who's not of the wholly-caucasian race, except for those who are servants that work for the wholly-caucasian race."
Under federal law, the rules no longer apply.
But Stewart says that's not good enough. She wants sweeping changes to weed-out all the racial discrimination from neighborhood agreements.
The Missouri legislature is working on a bill this session that aims to clean up the problem.
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