Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage
This May, we recognize and celebrate the cultures, contributions, and lasting impact of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities.
Heritage Month is a time to reflect, honor, and recognize both progress and ongoing challenges. The 2026 theme, “Power in Unity: Strengthening Communities Together,” highlights how AANHPI individuals and professionals are building connections, sharing their stories, and strengthening communities.
Homeownership remains a key part of that future. While AANHPI communities have made meaningful progress, gaps in access and equity still exist across the broader housing landscape. As real estate professionals, we have a role in helping bridge those gaps by providing guidance, education, and access to opportunity for all.
The Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) has partnered with the Urban Institute to deploy a national study concerning homeownership and wealth creation in the AANHPI community. The results provide valuable insights into how AANHPI households build, sustain, and transfer wealth through homeownership.
Read the report:
AANHPI Homeownership and Wealth-Building Trajectories: From Accumulation and Preservation to Intergenerational Transfer Over the Life Course
Opportunities for Involvement
AREAA Orange County
Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) is dedicated to promoting sustainable homeownership opportunities in Asian American communities by creating a powerful national voice for housing and real estate professionals that serve this dynamic market.
Diversity and Inclusion Training
Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing
The program helps real estate professionals learn tactics to interrupt stereotypical thinking so they can provide equal professional service to every prospect or client.
Participants will examine their ideas about people from various identity groups, explore the assumptions they may not know they’re making, and learn how to be more comfortable working across lines of difference. By engaging participants in exercises to build new habits of equitable behavior, “Bias Override” helps REALTORS® overcome barriers to working with clients of diverse backgrounds and avoid fair housing pitfalls.
Completion of this course satisfies NAR's Fair Housing training requirement. All REALTORS® are required to complete Fair Housing training every 3 years along with Code of Ethics training. You must attend the course in its entirety to receive credit for completion. No CE credit is provided.
Upcoming Sessions:
July 10, 9 AM - 12 PM | Webinar
Fairhaven 2.0: Essential Fair Housing Education
Fairhaven - NAR’s dynamic online simulation where real estate professionals tackle fair housing challenges head-on. Through realistic scenarios, practical insights, and historical context, you’ll explore key topics like steering, bias, disability accommodations, and standing up for clients facing discrimination.
This course is your gateway to creating more inclusive and equitable communities while meeting the NAR fair housing training requirement. Best of all, it’s free for NAR members.
Get started exploring a new era in NAR’s fictional online town - Fairhaven!
OCR's Fair Housing & Member Inclusion Committee
The purpose of the Fair Housing & Member Inclusion Committee, as outlined in the Strategic Plan, is to educate, engage, and empower the OCR community by cultivating resources and communication to create and sustain an environment that is inclusive, equitable and diverse and promotes fair housing for all.
Learn more about the Fair Housing & Member Inclusion Committee
AANHPI Heritage Month Virtual Backgrounds
Represent OC REALTORS® and celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month with one of these branded backgrounds when attending a virtual meeting with OCR.