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In late March, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed Senate Bill 1432, which allows homeowners to remove unlawful restrictions, such as racist covenants, from their housing deeds and other property records. 

Jason Jurjevich, an assistant professor in the School of Geography, Development and the Environment in the UArizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, took inquiries from state legislative staffers during the bill's drafting process and shared his team's research data for the Mapping Racist Covenants project. A grant from the University Libraries' Digital Borderlands Project, which is funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, funded the research project. 

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