Fair Housing Toolkit
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WHERE TO START
This toolkit contains materials brokerages can use to market Fair Housing and all things related to raising awareness of Fair Housing.
QUICK RESOURCES
NAR COURSES
At Home with Diversity
The coursework for the At Home with Diversity® certification is designed to enable you to work successfully with and within a rapidly changing multicultural market. It will help you to learn diversity sensitivity, how it applies to U.S. fair housing laws in your business, and ways to develop professional guidelines for working with people in the increasingly multicultural real estate market.
Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing
This workshop helps members understand how our unconscious brains stereotype others without our knowledge. This workshop offers practical tools to help with cross-group interactions, like creating protocols and scripts to ensure you treat every potential client the same and don’t have to worry about saying “the wrong thing.”
ARIZONA EDUCATORS & SPEAKERS
Approved for Fair Housing CE Credit
Equality and Inclusion: Fair Housing Today
Bias can impact the level of service you provide a client. Remember the scene from Pretty Woman where the clerks wouldn’t attend to the Julia Roberts character? In real estate, that kind of behavior can cost your license– and so much more.
Gatekeeper or Guide: Fair Housing in the 21st Century
Are you a gatekeeper, perhaps unintentionally blocking fairness in housing, or are you a guide – opening doors to all? This class will help you identify practices to allow you to remain a guide to fair housing.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-Best Practices
Raise awareness that bias impacts personal and professional interactions. Explore actions and systems REALTORS® can employ to ensure equal treatment to all and create an environment for our communities where everyone feels included.
Contact: butch@talkwithbutch.com
“Heart Full, Rise Up”
Gives real-life tools and tactics to effectively: lead discussions on diversity, understand how to effectively apologize, and recognize how to champion others.
“Ambassadors of the American Dream”
It is easy to lose sight of the importance we play in our communities as we are building them. This uplifting keynote serves as a reminder of both the supreme privilege and the enormous responsibility we have as the frontline Ambassadors of the American Dream. We share actionable ways we can uphold the promise we give in our Pre-Amble and become the best Ambassadors possible.
Contact: pmonthofer@me.com
Approved for Fair Housing CE Credit
Fair Housing- Get a Clue
Fair housing violations can impact your bottom line. If you’re in property management, you need to know fair housing laws. Protect your business.
You’ll get a better understanding of:
- Federal and City Laws
- Enforcement and Prosecution
- Identifying Potential Violations
- Advertising and Social Media
- Sexual Harassment
- Reasonable Accommodations & Modifications
Accidental Fair Housing Violations
Get a detailed breakdown of federal and state fair housing laws and apply them to routine residential rental housing situations.
Assistive Animals: How to Avoid Barking Up the Wrong Tree
This course provides you with a practical guide to the various federal, state, and municipal laws impacting fair housing laws as they relate to assistive animals. It will also analyze how those rules and changes impact the property managers’ policies and procedures.
Contact: h3landlordlaw@gmail.com
Approved for Fair Housing CE Credit
Fair Housing for Property Managers
Get a thorough understanding of the federal and state laws regulating fair housing. Explore the various laws that every property manager and real estate licensee must understand to protect your life and your business.
Contact: mike@michaelmulvena.com
Approved for Fair Housing CE Credit
Fair Housing for Property Managers
Get a thorough understanding of the federal and state laws regulating fair housing. Explore the various laws that every property manager and real estate licensee must understand to protect your life and your business.
Contact: sueflucke@westusa.com
Approved for Fair Housing CE Credit
What… that is a violation?
Save yourself from violations and an ethics complaint. Learn the top violations in real estate as well as the history of Fair Housing. This class will leave you with an understanding of how to identify and avoid violations.
Things to Know
Do you wonder how we got to this point with the Fair Housing Act or how it pertains today? We’ll discuss it and the top violations in our market in this class.
Contact: OcotilloEducation@gmail.com
BOOKS
“The Color of Law” by: Richard Richard Rothstein
Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods.
Where to Buy
“Caste” by: Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more.
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“Family Properties” by: Beryl Satter
The “promised land” for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation’s worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first campaign beyond the South. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city’s black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation.
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“Levittown” by: David Kushner
The dark side of the American dream: the true story of the first African-American family to move into the iconic suburb, Levittown, Pennsylvania.
In the decade after World War II, one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home: The Levitts. William, Alfred, and their father, Abe, pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat – but not to everyone. Levittown had a Whites-only policy.
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“The Fight for Fair Housing” by: Gregory Squires
The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation. It took the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to finally secure its passage. The Kerner Commission warned in 1968 that “to continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies; one largely Negro and poor, located in the central cities; the other, predominantly white and affluent, located in the suburbs and outlying areas”. The Fair Housing Act was passed with a dual mandate: to end discrimination and to dismantle the segregated living patterns that characterized most cities. The Fight for Fair Housing tells us what happened, why, and what remains to be done.
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EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION WEBINARS
Monopoly
(9:26)
The Arizona REALTORS® Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee was proud to have Dr. Leonard Moore from the University of Texas lead an important interactive session that helped explain why Black people are pessimistic about the future of race relations in America.
The Reporting Behind the Long Island Divide Investigation
(1:11:05)
Watch Bill Dedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and investigative reporter delve into the Long Island Divided Scandal. A three-year investigation into racial segregation and illegal steering.
Focus on Fair Housing
(1:19:51)
During the presentation, Nate discusses the history and evolution of The Fair Housing Act and its impact on society. Discover how the changing face of America affects our politics and shapes our nation. Nate also discusses some solutions to help us create the future that we will all be proud of. You will take away a lot of information that I know you will find valuable.
VIDEOS
ABC News – Nightline “Housing segregation still sidelining people of color from dream homes”
(11:40)
Long Island Divided: How real estate agents treated undercover clients on Long Island
(41:18)
National Fair Housing Alliance “Seven Days Documentary – 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act”
(8:49)
Adam Ruins Everything “The Disturbing History of the Suburbs”
(6:19)
Tonight with John Oliver “Housing Discrimination”
(32:07)
NPR Podcasts “Housing Segregation and Redlining in America”
(6:37)
CBS News “Housing discrimination causes generational wealth gap between White and Black Americans”
(11:28)
America Divided
(44:37)
NowThis News “The Segregation Myth: Richard Rothstein Debunks an American Lie”
(8:35)
One Together: Building Strong Inclusive Communities (What’s It Going to Take)
(51:12)