FairHaven 2.0 - NAR’s dynamic online simulation where real estate professionals tackle fair housing challenges head-on:  Here is the link to FairHaven 2.0 

Fair Housing Resources - NAR has put together the following resources to help and educate REALTORS® and associations on fair housing.

Housing Discrimination takes away an important opportunity for building long term financial wellbeing for all.  Link to Implicit Bias Video

The course work for the At Home with Diversity® certification is designed to enable you to work successfully with and within a rapidly changing multicultural market.
Here is a link to At Home with Diversity Course

On April 9, 2025 Moderator John Leonardi, BNAR Chief Executive Officer, Todd Vaarwerk, WNY Independent Living,  Daniel Corbitt, Esq. Housing Opportunities Made Equal (H.O.M.E), Edwin Negron  US Bank, and Harold Cardell, Jr. Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency joined a lively panel discussion on how you can understand and use fair housing practices to help your business. Our panel of experts discussed individual rights, rights of persons with disabilities, enforcement, and training. Learn how fair housing relates to mortgage lending and how lenders are regulated, how to avoid steering, violations and more. Here is the link to the recorded session.   

April is Fair Housing Month

REALTOR Fair Housing Declaration - I agree to:

• Provide equal professional service without regard to the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin of any prospective client, customer, or of the residents of any community.
   
• Keep informed about fair housing law and practices, improving my clients' and customers' opportunities and my business.
   
• Develop advertising that indicates that everyone is welcome and no one is excluded; expanding my client's and customer's opportunities to see, buy, or lease property. Inform my clients and customers about their rights and responsibilities under the fair housing laws by providing brochures and other information.
   
• Document my efforts to provide professional service, which will assist me in becoming a more responsive and successful REALTOR®.
   
• Refuse to tolerate non-compliance.
   
• Learn about those who are different from me, and celebrate those differences.
   
• Take a positive approach to fair housing practices and aspire to follow the spirit as well as the letter of the law.
   
• Develop and implement fair housing practices for my firm to carry out the spirit of this declaration.