Beyond Intent: Why We Get This Wrong About Unfair Housing And What to Do About It

<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-64d0a6e6-7fff-252b-9497-8718eb4a924d"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2023/11/29/beyond-intent-what-agents-get-wrong-about-fair-housing/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News.</span></a> </span></div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnEypuMS-Cb-fPY7-LwOyp9a2uONA5guFHB4Ix8ievWbjvgPzsBP2hbOLdhuiX9PrYudLSdexjKwOWKV7cG-FMm5R4OHkFFRXrIjDb7uazAwEZgjXEYlfTbBHZB58KgMein_T7EjZU6vyQreoS1rH9wmy6T7U4hiG60rQx02ClHJ3fU62doaHkXdHQ2g/s1280/house-2308799_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1280" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnEypuMS-Cb-fPY7-LwOyp9a2uONA5guFHB4Ix8ievWbjvgPzsBP2hbOLdhuiX9PrYudLSdexjKwOWKV7cG-FMm5R4OHkFFRXrIjDb7uazAwEZgjXEYlfTbBHZB58KgMein_T7EjZU6vyQreoS1rH9wmy6T7U4hiG60rQx02ClHJ3fU62doaHkXdHQ2g/s320/house-2308799_1280.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; color: #191b26; text-align: start;">How unfair housing feels: upside down. Image by </span><a href="https://pixabay.com/users/ulleo-1834854/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=2308799" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191b26; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">Leopictures</a><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; color: #191b26; text-align: start;"> from </span><a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=2308799" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191b26; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">Pixabay</a>. </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">Between social media comments and the classes I teach, I keep running across people – more specifically, those of us who should be the most well-versed, the real estate professionals – who see unfair housing as only an intent issue. They believe that people must be “targeted” for it to count. <span></span></span></span></p></span></span></div>

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Beyond Intent: Why We Get This Wrong About Unfair Housing And What to Do About It

As featured in Inman News. How unfair housing feels: upside down. Image by  Leopictures  from  Pixabay .  Between social media comments and...

3 Surprises That Still Influence Housing (Un)Affordability

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As featured in the <a href="https://ypn.realtor/the-lounge/surprises-influence-housing-unaffordability/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">National Assoc. of REALTORS YPN Blog</span></a>. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y7rBpV0X6RjKyCNiSPBSrGtyAjPYCHFf0N-0OWxWks4IJs9K91nt5M4waejRQLb74_L6vMCnoQGzk2JL3XHLAk2GG2NAEWIQvwTq0Cy10Fzd-D2D9wUvnO3dUyQ2rYOX1kmyZXhSlTAs6ND3ywB3CTOoTjqIxaPsrEfRmRaJIoa_PNlRTBw3f3-7G2c/s1280/surprised-6390054_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="1280" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y7rBpV0X6RjKyCNiSPBSrGtyAjPYCHFf0N-0OWxWks4IJs9K91nt5M4waejRQLb74_L6vMCnoQGzk2JL3XHLAk2GG2NAEWIQvwTq0Cy10Fzd-D2D9wUvnO3dUyQ2rYOX1kmyZXhSlTAs6ND3ywB3CTOoTjqIxaPsrEfRmRaJIoa_PNlRTBw3f3-7G2c/s320/surprised-6390054_1280.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; color: #191b26; text-align: start;">Image by </span><a href="https://pixabay.com/users/sheikh86295328-22229201/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=6390054" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191b26; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">JALAL SHEIKH</a><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; color: #191b26; text-align: start;"> from </span><a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=6390054" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191b26; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">Pixabay</a>.</span> </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-60329040-7fff-4d2d-2871-f99e65c41dde"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In many parts of the nation, unaffordability is bringing the housing market to a </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/home-sales-on-track-for-slowest-year-since-housing-bust-202453ab?utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=279101813&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9xC4m1RU5bE8MZn1EPwYKMak29OCW_ztJLeenyIh1pN_FmHuqD5E0gAuJlPYAHmM6Ctet6_ecrFaflpmotAAFNsMKw_A&utm_content=279101813&utm_source=hs_email" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">stalemate</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. As real estate pros, we may not be able to directly alter interest rates (outside of our lobbying efforts) but we can impact how much money people have in their pockets in order to have the financial wherewithal to buy, sell and lease real estate. How? By being what I call Fair Housing D.E.C.O.D.E.R.S.©, which is an acronym that in short stands for </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">proactive</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> housing advocacy for all – where we move beyond simply avoiding “hot water”.<span></span></span></p></span></div>

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3 Surprises That Still Influence Housing (Un)Affordability

As featured in the National Assoc. of REALTORS YPN Blog .  Image by  JALAL SHEIKH  from  Pixabay .   In many parts of the nation, unaffordab...

How Global Events Jeopardize U.S. Fair Housing and What We, Real Estate Pros, Can Do About It

<div><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2023/10/23/how-global-events-jeopardize-fair-housing-and-what-you-can-do/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a>. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPj-HvlEzjFnVwgX_caeca61gnjx6FR88-8aSFuFzRdeoFfPd6JgNoQXKGpYgf8Gzv2uP27LYX9RIFECjyiUNT7au7EI8b7Id2UOrkb2uHCVvKKDUkGPWWX0Ko6JP0YeAybBNdrYrogNfQ8Tnxz_onO9vNg8e1IvaEUueV5cd8a9KtnCi5eJcEZ3Q5qKE/s1280/globe-791596_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPj-HvlEzjFnVwgX_caeca61gnjx6FR88-8aSFuFzRdeoFfPd6JgNoQXKGpYgf8Gzv2uP27LYX9RIFECjyiUNT7au7EI8b7Id2UOrkb2uHCVvKKDUkGPWWX0Ko6JP0YeAybBNdrYrogNfQ8Tnxz_onO9vNg8e1IvaEUueV5cd8a9KtnCi5eJcEZ3Q5qKE/s320/globe-791596_1280.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Did you know over the last one hundred and “fifty-ish” years (starting roughly with the first unofficial fair housing act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866), tensions outside of the U.S. have put U.S. fair housing in jeopardy for everyday people, not directly associated with any of those military tensions? <span></span></span></span></p></div>

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How Global Events Jeopardize U.S. Fair Housing and What We, Real Estate Pros, Can Do About It

As featured in Inman News . Did you know over the last one hundred and “fifty-ish” years (starting roughly with the first unofficial fair ho...

Does Your Family Have Land They Don't Remember? You Might: A Guide to Uncovering Forgotten Family Land (with Dr. Dietra Hawkins)

<div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As featured in <a href="https://ypn.realtor/the-lounge/land-back-the-role-real-estate-pros-play-in-the-movement/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">RealtorMag's YPN Lounge</span></a> with an <a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/xrt51sh8ia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">excerpt from How to Be a Fair Housing DECODER©</span></a>.  </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Bp83jqJYH566vvzlXkujZ2QuC5aF1ClPXEPo7pVohWsJ8MQWbBcAizt-hg6JWOutDCwJvj9wTzbiHBGJ6vApnMJhiJ_kjBTeHe6xwgGNyQg7_wekwwbk6bBdJAy70aTSZuM8frtYoREC7fZwxzA0btlU22pwTYO53DlI1N3ip4BOB0-bXfCw4weDI2Q/s1280/north-carolina-reflections-204462_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1280" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Bp83jqJYH566vvzlXkujZ2QuC5aF1ClPXEPo7pVohWsJ8MQWbBcAizt-hg6JWOutDCwJvj9wTzbiHBGJ6vApnMJhiJ_kjBTeHe6xwgGNyQg7_wekwwbk6bBdJAy70aTSZuM8frtYoREC7fZwxzA0btlU22pwTYO53DlI1N3ip4BOB0-bXfCw4weDI2Q/s320/north-carolina-reflections-204462_1280.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Image by </span><a href="https://pixabay.com/users/kalasoft-11695/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=204462" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">Ed Hathaway</a><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> from </span><a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=204462" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">Pixabay</a>. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br></span></p><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are you working with clients who might have family land that they don’t remember? What about in your own family? You may be.<span></span></span></p></div>

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Does Your Family Have Land They Don't Remember? You Might: A Guide to Uncovering Forgotten Family Land (with Dr. Dietra Hawkins)

As featured in RealtorMag's YPN Lounge  with an excerpt from How to Be a Fair Housing DECODER© .   Image by  Ed Hathaway  from  Pixabay ...

After the NAR Scandal: 'Our' Brave History, What it Means to be a REALTOR® Right Now and Why 'We' Must Keep Workshopping

<div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2023/09/08/dont-let-equity-fall-through-the-cracks-as-we-rebuild-nar/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a>.  </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWbxanbNMydOarvXhgoeUkVaz-Up13lZEgzkQMYACuxaIRH_ok9BJInLZs_T_QjOp287vMRipC9vr5fmrxjbsLn4TAbKNB43BUejo9_1K9qS-xSxhmTOBMpzxkoErXxmb5cmdwVNu9I0Hvq7wPjma3efuLGSQX_-LHx4Hxs6dg_T8TR60gTnT3G61dPxw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2251" data-original-width="3494" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWbxanbNMydOarvXhgoeUkVaz-Up13lZEgzkQMYACuxaIRH_ok9BJInLZs_T_QjOp287vMRipC9vr5fmrxjbsLn4TAbKNB43BUejo9_1K9qS-xSxhmTOBMpzxkoErXxmb5cmdwVNu9I0Hvq7wPjma3efuLGSQX_-LHx4Hxs6dg_T8TR60gTnT3G61dPxw" width="320"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” Charles Dickens wrote in A "Tale of Two Cities". And that’s probably what many agents feel about the current landscape and messaging coming from leadership at the National Association of Realtors as they respond to sexual harassment and discrimination allegations.⁣<span></span></span></div></div>

After the NAR Scandal: 'Our' Brave History, What it Means to be a REALTOR® Right Now and Why 'We' Must Keep Workshopping

As featured in  Inman News .     “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” Charles Dickens wrote in A "Tale of Two Cities&...

DEMO:1 Easy Instagram Hack to Grow Your Real Estate Business

<div style="text-align: center;">As featured in RealtorMag. </div><div><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2XWOlNDFV2wuuuKdwmzpBWDqIXoQCNleYzdf7VsgJiCb0yLZNffNUJ8dXLgXgkHEmY3D8u1ap4YhDTS5j19Y-Zu6IhU9bUnQVl5XUJhiwir9Y7oy3LNBjQgzqZ-EhilV8cf8hQnCs8UkjNbP201ofW5fX-QH0wkkNX97Tq15ePGwCzUyvz4Wmp2r3Qw/s1280/instagram-g9c0a60bc9_1280.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1255" data-original-width="1280" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih2XWOlNDFV2wuuuKdwmzpBWDqIXoQCNleYzdf7VsgJiCb0yLZNffNUJ8dXLgXgkHEmY3D8u1ap4YhDTS5j19Y-Zu6IhU9bUnQVl5XUJhiwir9Y7oy3LNBjQgzqZ-EhilV8cf8hQnCs8UkjNbP201ofW5fX-QH0wkkNX97Tq15ePGwCzUyvz4Wmp2r3Qw/s320/instagram-g9c0a60bc9_1280.png" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; color: #191b26; text-align: start;">Image by </span><a href="https://pixabay.com/users/kirstyfields-4444715/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=2164343" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191b26; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">kirstyfields</a><span face=""Open Sans", system-ui" style="background-color: white; color: #191b26; text-align: start;"> from </span><a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=2164343" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191b26; font-family: "Open Sans", system-ui; text-align: start;">Pixabay</a> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span id="docs-internal-guid-af190cdf-7fff-62a4-b894-cfba54e91f51"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Instagram is still a powerful platform for real estate agents and brokers to market themselves and connect with potential clients. <span></span></span></p></span>

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DEMO:1 Easy Instagram Hack to Grow Your Real Estate Business

As featured in RealtorMag.  Image by  kirstyfields  from  Pixabay   Instagram is still a powerful platform for real estate agents and broker...