Fair Housing: It's Just Good Business (VA)

Overview

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in residential real estate transactions to ensure fair treatment of renters, buyers, and borrowers. Fair housing laws are a crucial tool for eliminating discrimination against protected groups of people. Designed to meet the NAR fair housing/anti-bias training requirement, this course discusses these laws, their enforcement, and the different protected classes under Virginia and federal laws. It also provides strategies for running a real estate business that complies with fair housing laws and embraces diversity, which will help licensees 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 and define protected classes under federal and Virginia law
  • Define steering and discuss how to avoid it 
  • Describe the reasonable accommodations and modifications for people with disabilities that may be required under fair housing laws 
  • Recognize best practices in fair housing marketing and advertising
  • Identify the resources that are available to provide fair housing information and assistance to real estate clients 
  • Recognize the danger in making assumptions about others based on stereotypes and the importance of allowing real estate clients to choose for themselves which communities/neighborhoods they want to live in 
  • Utilize interventions that interrupt implicit bias to ensure that real estate consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness


Designed For:

Virginia real estate professionals at all stages of their career




Course Information

Adding additional credit may change exam requirements.