Fair Housing Toolkit
Standard Operating Procedures
Articles:
- What You Need to Know About the New Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - by Brian S. Levine, Esq., HGAR In-House Counsel/Director of Legal Services & Professional Standards Administrator. - (4/11/2022)
Useful Links:
NYSAR Flash Updates:
Fair Housing Presentations
- Fair Housing 2022 Presentation - updated March 2022
- Broker Owner/Manager Fair Housing Updates March 29, 2022 presentation
How To Ensure Your Real Estate Business Is ADA Compliant - July 26, 2022
Fair Housing Documents
Assistance Animals
- Assessing a Person’s Request to Have an Animal as a Reasonable Accommodation Under the Fair Housing Act
- Fact Sheet on HUD’s Assistance Animals Notice
- HUD.Gov - Assistance Animals
NYS Fair Housing Regulations effective June 20, 2020
- NYS Fair Housing Regulation (effective June 20, 2020)
- NYS Housing and Anti-Discrimination Disclosure Form (effective June 20, 2020)
- Fair Housing Notice (effective June 20, 2020)
- Fair Housing FAQs (2020)
NAR Fair Housing Resources
- NEW NAR 2022 Fair Housing Consumer Advertising Campaign
- Fair Housing Declaration - (optional)
- Equal Service Checklist - (optional)
- Equal Service Report – Buyer INSTRUCTIONS - (optional)
- Equal Service Report – Buyer FORM - (optional)
- Equal Service Report – Rental INSTRUCTIONS - (optional)
- Equal Service Report – Rental FORM - (optional)
WRO Fair Housing Resources
- WRO Fair Housing - Protected Classes
- WRO Fair Housing Facts-Know Your Rights
- WRO Guide to Reasonable Accommodation in Housing Under the Fair Housing Act
- WRO 2019 NYS Source of Income Protection
- WRO Fair Housing Training Video Curriculum
HGAR Fair Housing Resources
HGAR Fair Housing Committee events:
- HGAR’s 2021 Fair Housing Summit. The program which consisted of three segments - 4 Hour video
- Guest Speaker: Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law
- Panel Discussion on Disability and Source of Income Discrimination in Housing with Moderator: Dorothy Botsoe and Panelists: Robin White, Adriana Calderon, Lashaun McCalla
- A conversation between Crystal Hawkins-Syska and Bill Dedman, investigative reporter for the Newsday about the Long Island Divided Expose
- What You Need to Know About Discrimination Based on Lawful Source of Income series:
- Recorded session with Wilson Kimball, President and CEO of the Municipal Housing Authority of the City of Yonkers (July 2021) - 60 minute video
- Recorded session with Caroline Downey, General Counsel for NYS Division of Human Rights - 80 minute video
- Guidance on Protections from Source of Income Discrimination in Housing Under the New York State Human Rights law pdf
Video Resources
- NAR’s Window to the Law Series:
- Criminal Background Checks - Fair Housing - 3 min video
- Housing Vouchers and Fair Housing - 4 min video
- Best Practices for Buyer Love Letters - 4 min video
- NAR’s Fair Housing Action Plan - 4 min video
- Newsday Documentary - Article and 41 min video
- An Overview of the Fair Housing Act - 6 min video
- A House Divided (excerpt) - 16 min video
- Window to the Law : Fair Housing Update - 4 min video
- Fair Housing Public Service Announcement "Accents" - 1 min video
- NAR "Bias Override:Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing" - 54 min video (posted June 26, 2020)
- NYSAR Implicit Bias NAR Video - 1 min video (posted June 26, 2020)
- NAR - The Reaffirmation of Fair housing Principle - 4 min video (posted August 7, 2020)
BCW Anti Racism Educational Series
- Unconscious Bias - 60 min video
- Fostering Inclusion in the Workplace - 60 min video
- How to be an Inclusive Leader 60 min video
- What You Need to Know About Demonstrations 60 min video
- Coping with Civil Unrest 60 min video
- Self-Care in the Face of Trama 60 min video
- Raising Children to Respect Diversity in Your Home 60 min video
- Ask the Expert 60 min video
Fair Housing Recommendations
Book Recommendations by Bryan Greene, NAR’s Director of Federal Fair Housing Policy:
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- American Apartheid by Douglas S. Massey
- Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
- Wilmington’s Lie by David Zucchino
For additional book recommendations, book reviews, and author interviews go to: https://www.nar.realtor/fair-housing/fair-housing-book-recommendations
Podcast Recommendations from NAR
- Building Stuyvesant Town: A Mid-Century Controversy (62 minutes)
- Location! Location! Location! (35 minutes)
- The redline: Racial disparities in lending (50 minutes)
- House Rules (55 minutes)
Article Recommendations from NAR
- Separated by Design: Why Affordable Housing is Built in Areas with High Crime, Few Jobs, and Struggling Schools by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
- When the Dream of Owning a Home Became a Nightmare by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Staggering Loss of Black Wealth During Subprime Scandal Continues Unabated by Nathalie Baptiste
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates