Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
PAR supports diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as a continued commitment to fair housing, as part of its strategic plan. The association’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee works to promote and support a membership inclusive of many communities, identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, cultures and beliefs.
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 a variety of resources, courses, grants and much more from NAR.
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.
Local chapters:
- Philadelphia Metropolitan Board of Realtist – a local chapter of NAREB
- AREAA Greater Philadelphia 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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