Attend the Free Fair Housing Training, Luncheon Set for April 3, 2019 

HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS UNLAWFUL. Realtors® serve on the front lines to ensure that all buyers and renters are provided full access to housing opportunity.

This year marks the 51st anniversary of Fair Housing Act. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that more than four million instances of housing discrimination occur each year. Fewer than 30,000 complaints are filed annually, according to HUD estimates. Millions of acts of rental, sales, lending and insurance discrimination go unchecked. It is crucial that real estate practitioners understand fair housing laws to serve clients and help prevent fair housing abuses or violations. Compliance is part of the NAR Code of Ethics.

NVAR members are urged to attend the Wednesday, April 3 Fair Housing Training, offered by the Fairfax County Office of Human Rights and Equity Programs and the Fairfax County Fair Housing Task Force. The program check-in starts at 8:00 a.m. with a free luncheon and program following it.

Attend to learn more about the latest fair housing issues as well as emerging eviction problems plaguing Virginia. Increased attention to evictions in Virginia has been sparked by recent data that cites the Commonwealth’s estimated eviction rate of 5.1 percent, which is twice the national average.

Attorney Sarah Pratt will be the lunch keynote speaker. She practices fair housing and civil rights law, including lending and civil rights compliance.

Prior to joining the law firm of Relman, Dane & Colfax, Pratt was deputy assistant secretary for enforcement and programs and senior advisor to the assistant secretary at HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. She was responsible for overseeing HUD’s enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and related laws.

Student awards will be presented at the luncheon for the literary and art contest that was hosted by the 2019 Fairfax County School System Student Human Rights Commission.

Visit NVAR.com/fairhousing2019. For more information, email jlandsman@nvar.com.