Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources

• Local DEI activities
  • Local Realtor® associations’ DEI committees are taking steps to support diversity, equity and inclusion in their areas. View this list of local DEI activities.
• NAR Resources
  • NAR supports Diversity and Inclusion, as well as a continued commitment to Fair Housing as part of its core values. View various resources, courses, grants and much more from NAR.
• Harvard Implicit Association Test
  • The Implicit Association Test measures the strength of associations between concepts and evaluations or stereotypes. Take a test.

Multicultural Real Estate Organizations

• AREAA – Asian Real Estate Association of America – strives to promote sustainable homeownership opportunities in Asian American communities.
• NAHREP – National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals – is dedicated to advancing sustainable Hispanic homeownership.
• NAREB – National Association of Real Estate Brokers – works to implement programs, events and solutions that are all geared to fight the low homeownership numbers in Black America.
• LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance is an all-inclusive and all-embracing organization that strives to improve the professional lives of members while providing consumers the necessary resources to assist in all facets of the homeownership experience.
• Pittsburgh Realtist Professionals – a local NAREB chapter – https://pghrealtist.com/

Local chapters:

• Philadelphia Metropolitan Board of Realtist – a local chapter of NAREB
• AREAA Greater Philadelphia chapter
• LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance – Pittsburgh Chapter
• LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance – Eastern PA Chapter

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Book Recommendations

• American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
• Brave New Home by Diana Lind
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• How to be An Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
• Inclusify by Dr. Stefanie Johnson
• Not in My Neighborhood by Anthony Pietila
• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz Malcolm X
• The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated American by Richard Rothstein
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• The Sum of Us by Heather McGee
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

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Upcoming Events

• March 27 at noon – Fair Housing Fundamentals hosted by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
• April 16 – Housing Equality Conference, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• April 17 at 10 a.m. – Fair Housing for Realtors® webinar with Natalie Davis, 2023 president of the Colorado Association of Realtors®
• April 27 – AREAA Fair Housing Symposium and Expo