Racism and Steering Resources

Implicit bias

• Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing video
• "Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing" in the July 2020 Wisconsin Real Estate Magazine
• Take the Implicit Bias test
• Thursday Takeaways Episode 48: "Implicit Bias " with Debbi Conrad: It is important that real estate professionals treat people fairly and avoid biases that lead to agents treating different groups of people differently. Hear the confessions of a WRA attorney about her implicit biases after taking the Harvard Implicit Bias test. You may have implicit biases and not even realize it!

Steering

• WRA 360 Episode 1: "Long Island Divided: A Study in Steering" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes perspective of the Newsday undercover investigation and what it revealed about fair housing issues and racial steering
• Newsday’s Long Island Divided investigation report
• Testing the Divide
• "Long Island Steering Investigation: Avoiding the trap of racial steering," in the February 2020 Wisconsin Real Estate Magazine
• "Fair Housing Steering," in the May 2020 Legal Update

Fairhaven

• Legal Update Live Episode 11: "Fair Housing and Fairhaven" Learn from NAR’s Alexia Smokler about the latest fair housing issues as well as the National Association of REALTORS^®’ (NAR) interactive training platform, Fairhaven: A Fair Housing Simulation 
• Welcome to Fairhaven: Promoting Fair Housing
• Fairhaven: A Fair Housing Simulation
• "A Visit to the Mythical Fairhaven: Looking at fair housing through a different lens," in the January 2021 Wisconsin Real Estate Magazine

Racial covenants and restrictions

• "Do You Have a Racist Deed?" in the March 2021 Wisconsin Real Estate Magazine
• Racist language is still woven into home deeds across America. Erasing it isn't easy, and some don't want to
• Racially Restrictive Covenants: The Making of All-white Suburbs in Milwaukee County
• Mapping Prejudice in Dane County? 

Videos

• "A Matter of Place" documentary shines a bright light on housing discrimination. The film connects past struggles for fair housing to contemporary incidents of housing bias based on race, sexual orientation, disability and source of income, and it presents three stories of people who faced housing discrimination in present-day New York City
• "Segregated By Design" is narrated by Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, about the systemic racism woven into this country's history
• NAR’s Role – Past, Present and Future – in Fair Housing
• Housing Point: Fair Housing Act: This free video download addresses assistance animals, harassment based on sexual favors, family status discrimination (children), steering, criminal background screening standards and sexual orientation/gender identity
• NAR fair housing video recommendations

Reading lists

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein. This groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided solely through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state and federal governments that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. This title is available as an audiobook for NAR members, at wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law and on Amazon.
• NAR fair housing book recommendations