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Dimon says creditors are making more aggressive and positive assumptions about future performance, covenants are weakening, there’s more use of payment-in-kind, more aggressive private ratings and more arbitrage.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 6, 2026

The order bans new restrictive covenants which prohibit land being used for a supermarket.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2025

With few options to raise revenue for the tribe, individual Agua Caliente members had rented land to newcomers of color who were barred by real estate covenants from living elsewhere in Palm Springs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2024

With the Covenant Homeownership Program set to launch this summer, potentially hundreds of families could realize the dream denied them, their parents or grandparents because of state-supported restrictive covenants.

From Seattle Times May 7, 2024

For example, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all refer to covenants made between God and people.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz