All residents are invited to participate in the Restrictive Covenant Project. Find out how you can get involved!
Resource HUB: The Marin County Restrictive Covenant Project website features education, opportunities to get involved and includes an invitation for community voices to share their experiences about racially restrictive covenants. You are invited to share stories, photos, or experiences about the impact of racial covenants in Marin and how it has affected your life and the lives of those you know and love.
Submit your “story” using this form and you will be helping us learn collectively as a County.
Explore the Past: Check out books, articles and videos that explore the nation and Marin’s relationship with racially restrictive housing programs.
Participate in the Present: Learn how to modify racially restrictive covenants in property documents and check out a map of currently identified locations with racially restrictive covenants throughout Marin.
Shape the Future: The Housing Element, a planning process to identify how to meet housing needs at all levels, is currently underway.
Design a Participatory Budgeting Project: Propose a project to the Office of Equity Participatory Budgeting Committee that addresses the effect of racially restrictive covenants in Marin County, and potentially receive $50,000 - $250,000 in funding to move the project forward.
Youth Intern Opportunities: High School and College students are invited to assist with research, school pilots and community outreach. Email cmartinez@marincounty.org for more details.