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  Join the Miami Valley Fair Housing Center and the Dayton Area Board of REALTORS® for our annual celebration of Fair Housing Month. Sorry, registration is now closed. Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Sinclair Conference Center Dayton, Ohio The event includes fair housing workshops accredited for continuing education for REALTORS® and other housing professionals, the Fair Housing luncheon, keynote speaker Sara K. Pratt, and the Marie Kindrick Fair Housing Awards presentations.
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Generously sponsored by…
Sara K. Pratt — Keynote speaker Sara K. Pratt serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Programs  Sara K. Pratt Ms. Pratt, who has served in her present position since September 2010, oversees HUD’s enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and other civil rights laws, the Fair Housing Assistance Program, the Fair Housing Initiatives Program and HUD’s enforcement of Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act. She has worked as an attorney, trainer, and fair housing and civil rights expert for thirty-four years. Before her return to HUD, Ms. Pratt staffed the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, co-chaired by former HUD Secretaries Jack Kemp and Henry Cisneros, helping to prepare a report on the future of fair housing, issued in December 2008. She assisted with the development of the report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, “Residential Segregation and Housing Discrimination in the United States," issued in January 2008. She was a member of the faculty of the National Fair Housing Training Academy and the National Fair HOusing Alliance’s Fair Housing School and served on the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Fair Housing Task Force. Her recent publications also include "Disparate Impact under the Fair Housing Act: A Proposed Approach" (December 2009), co-authored with Robert Schwemm. Pratt has been an expert witness in a number of fair housing cases, including United States ex rel. Anti Discrimination Center v. Westchester County, NY, United States v. Village of Island Park, and National Fair Housing Alliance v. Prudential Insurance Company. As Director of Enforcement at HUD between 1993 and 1999, Ms. Pratt participated in a number of initiatives relating to discrimination in housing and lending including leading FHEO’s enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and other civil rights laws. She worked personally on the development of the FFIEC Policy Statement on Fair Lending. Under her direct supervision, her office reviewed and analyzed fair lending issues and developed and settled HUD’s first case involving predatory lending. From May 1999 to December 2000, Ms. Pratt served as Director of Enforcement and Compliance for the National Fair Housing Alliance. In the past she has been outside counsel for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for which she provided fair lending advice and consultation. From 1991–1993 she served as Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Fair Housing in HUD’s office of General Counsel. She also practiced civil rights law in Louisville, KY, held a variety of positions with the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights and has served as a national and international consultant on fair housing matters. Ms. Pratt is editor and primary author of Damages for Embarrassment and Humiliation in Housing Discrimination Cases (published by the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, 1982–1983). | ||||||||||||||
| Marie Kindrick Fair Housing Awards | ||||||||||||||
Marie Kindrick was a remarkable woman who for nearly sixty years was committed to working for the rights of those who are under-represented. Born into a wealthy New England family, Kindrick defied convention and expectations and made her life a testament to the kind of work that we honor with these awards. As a REALTOR® in our community, she was a volunteer tutor for the DABR Partners in Education at Ruskin School and also taught English as a second language in Kettering Schools. She served on DABR's Equal Opportunity Committee from 1992 until her untimely passing in May 1998. Each year we pay tribute to Marie Kindrick and honor her for the inspiration to work for fairness and equity for everyone by honoring a Community Professional, a Community Volunteer, and a REALTOR®. | ||||||||||||||
| Fair Housing, Accessibility, and Visitability for REALTORS® | ||||||||||||||
Workshop time: 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (3 hours)  This is an interactive fair housing workshop for REALTORS® presented by a team of experienced professionals from the Access Center for Independent Living (ACIL), located in downtown Dayton.Class participants will learn about their fair housing role in assisting people with disabilities who might reasonable accommodation and modifications in the process of seeking, purchasing or renting, and moving into a new home. They will also learn about different concepts and levels of accessibility in the design and construction of structural features. Next, class participants will be grouped into teams of five to participate in awareness activities designed to provide insight into the disability experience. A few of the things that participants will experience are: mobilizing with a manual wheelchair and functioning with a mobility/dexterity impairment, experiential activities that simulate hearing impairment and visual impairment, and activities designed to raise awareness of cognitive and speech disabilities. This course is limited to 30 participants. This course is approved for civil rights continuing education credit by the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing. | ||||||||||||||
| Fair Housing, Advertising, and the Internet for REALTORS® | ||||||||||||||
Workshop time: 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (3 hours) This is a timely and important workshop that will explore the problems, challenges and opportunities related to marketing properties through internet advertising and how REALTORS® can avoid fair housing liability in this area of their work. A 2008 NAR study on advertising residential units for sale showed trends that highlight the importance of this course. For example, 87% of home seekers now use the Internet to search for homes while only 47% use printed materials such as newspapers. Fair housing cases involving discriminatory advertisements on the Internet have increased sharply in the last three years. The National Fair Housing Alliance in its 2009 Fair Housing Trends Report said, “Another trend is with the use of the Internet to initiate most housing transactions, discriminatory ads are popping up online. Most of the ads discriminate against families with children.” In a 2006 memo, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development stated, “The Department also has concluded that it is illegal for web sites to publish discriminatory advertisements.” This course is approved for civil rights continuing education credit by the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing. | ||||||||||||||
| Immigrant-friendly Community Initiative | ||||||||||||||
Workshop time: 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (2 hours)  Human Relations CouncilThe City of Dayton’s Human Relations Council wants to solicit your thoughts on the questions below, develop new questions and set the stage for developing strategies for creating immigrant-friendly communities.
Help us to foster a community that actively welcomes and integrates new residents and helps them on a path to citizenship. | ||||||||||||||
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