Fair Housing: It's Just Good Business

Overview

The federal Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in residential real estate transactions (e.g., brokering, financial, and appraisal services) to ensure fair treatment of renters, buyers, and borrowers. Fair housing laws are a crucial tool for eliminating discrimination against protected classes. This course discusses federal and state laws, their enforcement, and the different protected classes. It also provides strategies for running a real estate business that comply with fair housing laws and encourage diversity. Embracing these ideas will help licensees improve their business, provide equal service, and combat housing discrimination.

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Learning Objectives

  • Explain the history and lasting impact of housing discrimination and why fair housing laws were necessary
  • Identify the laws that make housing discrimination illegal and the actions that these laws prohibit or require real estate licensees to take
  • Identify the personal characteristics federal law protects from discrimination in housing (i.e., the protected classes of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability)
  • Discuss how state and local government protections may exceed those outlined in federal law
  • Define steering and discuss how to avoid it
  • Recognize best practices in fair housing marketing
  • Utilize interventions that interrupt implicit bias to ensure that real estate consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness
  • Recognize the state and local fair housing laws specific to North Carolina and how they differ from the federal Fair Housing Act


Designed For:

North Carolina real estate professionals at all stages of their career




Course Information

Adding additional credit may change exam requirements.