Description

Satisfies Fair Housing Requirement for license Renewal

Free for DCAR Members.

Instructor: Dorothy Botsoe

CE Credit Hours 3.0

What real estate agents will learn?

The discussion about the NYS SOI Law in place as of April 2019 and its history.

The history of the Fair Housing Act of 1968

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Protected Classes

The history of segregation, discrimination, access to housing.

The impact of SOI discrimination on a person (s) and how we as real estate agents must work hard to try to eliminate any stigma.

We will also discuss the Fair Housing violations that could occur if real estate agents do not work equally and fairly with people using other SOI.

We will discuss Steering, Blockbusting, Redlining, Housing Discrimination

We will discuss Disparate Impact on marginalized communities.

We will discuss educating the homeowners who will not and are not willing to accept other SOI to rent their properties. The perceptions, stereotypes, and negative observations of people who are using SOI to rent their property.

We will also discuss our roles as real estate agents and how best to advocate for the person who is using another SOI if that person feels they have been discriminated against by a homeowner.  We must provide resources for that person to be able to file a complaint against the person who discriminated against them.

Finally, we will discuss best practices that brokerages, management companies, agents, homeowners- landlords, must put in place to get the job done properly, which is to provide access to housing for all regardless of the person’s source of income and protected class.