Diversity Equity Inclusion / Fair Housing Committee

Starting this year, members of the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) are required to complete fair housing training with the Code of Ethics cycle. Fairhaven 2.0, NAR's updated online simulation where you tackle real-world fair housing challenges, makes it easy to meet this requirement—at no cost.

3... 2... 1... LAUNCH: LGBTQplusHOMES.com IS NOW OPEN! LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance CEO and Founder, Ryan Weyandt, announced the launch of LGBTQplusHomes.com—a new consumer site that will not only share important real estate content to the LGBTQ+ community through a partnership with Keeping Current Matters, but also allows the LGBTQ+ community to connect directly to practitioners.

The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance, one of the nation's leading LGBTQ+ trade organizations with more than 2,200 members, has unveiled its second annual LGBTQ+ Real Estate Report, which found that while Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts and marketing towards the LGBTQ+ community have gained traction, unconscious bias and blatant discrimination remain all too common in the real estate industry. This includes 20.7% of surveyed Alliance members identifying real estate agents as the leading culprit in how housing discrimination occurs against the LGBTQ+ real estate home buyer.

On November 13, the Board of Directors for the National Association of REALTORS voted in favor of a motion presented by NAR's Professional Standards Committee making it a violation for Realtors to use harassing or hate speech toward any of the protected classes under Article 10 of NAR's Code of Ethics. Those include race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity. The Professional Standards Committee recommendations come as NAR works to reaffirm its commitment to fair housing and position its members to lead America's real estate industry in the fight against discrimination and inequality.