Bill Dedman’s 3 CE Clock Hours “Lessons learned from Long Island divided.” Open to Real estate licensees and the public.

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1900 7th Ave

Longview, WA 98632, USA


Description:  This program will cover Fair Housing laws, along with how agents knowingly or unknowingly violated these laws. Best practices and solutions will also be discussed to help agents understand the importance of equal treatment in housing opportunitiesfor consumers. Presented by Pulitzer Prize winner and No. 1 bestselling author Bill Dedman, who was a lead reporter on Newsday's three-year investigation Long Island Divided.

Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to: 

• Examine their business practices for biases, steering, segregation andracial inequality. 
• Interpret how easy it is to violate, knowingly or unknowingly, therules of fair housing. 
• Understand how violating fair housing rules impacts sellers, buyers, landlords, tenants, communities, businesses, and government.
• Evaluate the role real estate agents have in housing steering, segregation, and racial inequality. 
• Illustrate best practices to stop housing steering, segregation, and racial inequality.


Cost:

The costs for realtors is $30 and includes a lunch and the 3 CE clock hour certificate, non realtor licensees is $35. The course if free to the public without lunch and $20 with lunch.

Class course:

The class is a 3 clock hours CE Washington State Real Estate approved course from 11am to 2:30pm and a part of our Fair Housing Forum day. For real estate licensees the CE certificate is included in the costs to attend and participate.




BILL DEDMAN

Bill Dedman is a Pulitzer and Peabody award‐winning investigative

reporter, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. He has spoken on fair

housing and fair lending issues for the National Association of Realtors,

the Federal Reserve, HUD, and banking and real estate associations.

Bill received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for his work

at The Atlanta Journal‐Constitution on The Color of Money, his series on

racial discrimination by banks and savings and loan associations in

middle‐income Black neighborhoods. The Color of Money led to

expanded federal laws on disclosure of loan data, new financing for

middle‐income homebuyers, and greater awareness of systemic

discrimination. The articles in The Color of Money are online at

http://powerreporting.com.

Thirty years later, Bill was one of four lead reporters on Newsday's

undercover investigation of racial steering by real estate agents, Long

Island Divided. The investigation, published in November 2019, revealed

that Long Island’s dominant residential real estate brokerages help

reinforce racial segregation through illegal steering of customers.

Newsday's team received several national awards for their work,

including a Peabody Award. Long Island Divided and its 40‐minute

documentary film, Testing the Divide, are online at

http://newsday.com/divided.

Bill also uncovered the case of the reclusive copper heiress Huguette

Clark in 2010, documenting her life in reports for NBC News. His

nonfiction book, the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Empty Mansions:

The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great

American Fortune, tells the true story of Clark and her father, the Gilded

Age industrialist who founded Las Vegas. Bill is a frequent speaker for

financial‐planning groups and charities on Empty Mansions and lessons

learned from the Clark family's failures in estate planning.

Bill has reported for The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The New

York Times, and The Boston Globe.



Realtor members with lunch and CE
$30
CE certificate and light lunch included.
Non realtor licensees with lunch and CE
$35
CE certificate and light lunch included.
Public without lunch
Free
Class course participation registration, no CE included, no lunch included.
Public with lunch included
$20
Class course participation registration, no CE included, light lunch is included in this $20 charge to cover the lunch costs.
Realtor without lunch
$10
3 Clock hour CE certificate only, no lunch included.
Non-realtor real estate licensee without lunch
$15
3 Clock hour CE certificate only, no lunch included.
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