Fair Housing Basics 2025: Your Guide to the Evolving Housing Landscape

Instructor: Leigh Lester 

Course Description:

This is a foundational Fair Housing Basics course, incorporating new regulatory changes and current guidance while retaining essential principles of fair housing education. Participants will review the core elements of fair housing law, history, and complaint procedures alongside updates in the AFFH rule and recent administrative changes.

Key topics include:

This course is structured to deliver clear, practical, and factual information, ensuring that participants are equipped with both the foundational knowledge and the latest updates needed for effective fair housing compliance and decision-making.

Regulatory Updates: An objective overview of adjustments in protected classes—including the addition of sexual harassment and expanded protections for sexual orientation and gender identity—along with clarifications on state protections such as source of income and considerations of criminal history or disparate impact.

Visual Learning: Enhanced visual examples that illustrate practices like discriminatory marketing, using current samples from HUD social media campaigns and online postings.

Fair Lending Insights: Updated discussion on contemporary examples of discrimination in lending under ECOA, an analysis of recent redlining research and case studies, and insights into compliance practices at financial institutions.

Additional Resources: An interactive workbook designed as both a note-taking guide and a reference tool after the session, along with information on how NCRC membership offers ongoing support during periods of regulatory change.

Navigating Change: A review of the potential impacts from recent modifications to agencies such as the EEOC and CFPB, with strategies provided for managing these evolving challenges.