Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage
This May, we proudly honor the rich cultures, contributions, and enduring resilience of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. Heritage Month is a time to reflect, celebrate, and recognize both achievements and ongoing challenges within our industry and society. This year's theme for AANHPI Heritage Month is "A Legacy of Leadership and Resilience."
Amidst our celebration, it's crucial to recognize the disparities in homeownership rates across different racial groups. The 2024 State of Asia America Report, released by the Asian Real Estate Association of America, reveals that despite an overall higher homeownership rate than that of Black Americans and Latino Americans, disparities persist compared to those of White Americans.
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:
May 28 OC REALTORS® Laguna Hills: 9:00AM - 12:00PM
At Home With Diversity (AHWD)
The coursework for the At Home with Diversity® certification is designed to enable you to work successfully with and within a rapidly changing multicultural market. It will help you to learn diversity sensitivity, how it applies to U.S. fair housing laws in your business, and ways to develop professional guidelines for working with people in the increasingly multicultural real estate market.
What You Gain
- Knowledge of the subtleties of U.S. fair housing laws
- Business etiquette for specific cultures
- An edge in expanding your business to include international clientele
- Credit towards the ABR®, CIPS, and PMN designations
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:
June 17 Online Webinar: 9:00AM - 4:00PM
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 new NAR fair housing training requirement that takes effect January 1, 2025. Best of all, it’s free for NAR members.
Get started exploring a new era in NAR’s fictional online town - Fairhaven!
OCR's Member Inclusion and Fair Housing Committee
The purpose of the Member Inclusion and Fair Housing 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 Member Inclusion and Fair Housing Committee