The Workforce Housing Forum Guide provides technical and financial assistance to help plan, organize, and conduct a forum to address your community’s workforce housing needs. The guide includes tips and tools for setting goals, identifying partners, selecting speakers, managing resources, handling logistics, and examples of successful forums conducted by other…...
Housing Opportunity Toolkit
This collection of guides and resources is designed to help REALTOR® associations conduct activities to address affordability challenges in the communities they serve. The toolkit is based on the successes of other associations and offers practical tips and examples for a range of activities including housing fairs, buyer education classes,…...
Fair Housing Grant Toolkit
This collection of guides and resources is designed to help REALTOR® associations conduct activities to further the mission of fair housing in the communities they serve. The toolkit is based on the successes of other associations and offers practical tips and examples for a range of activities forums, fair housing…...
Fair Housing Resources
What is the state of fair housing in your community? As your local government completes HUD’s Fair Housing Assessments, be sure your association is part of the planning process. Help your communities look holistically at fair housing and develop solutions that will be effective in the marketplace. Check out the…...
Diversity Initiative Grant
Increase diversity and inclusion within the association and its leadership; build and expand relationships with multicultural real estate organizations; and address fair housing issues and fair housing planning in your communities with the Diversity Initiative Grant program. Providing resources to state and local associations is a key strategy in NAR’s…...
Patent Trademark Office (USPTO)
USPTO is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. The USPTO advises the president of the United States, the secretary of commerce, and U.S. government agencies on intellectual property (IP) policy, protection, and enforcement; and promotes the stronger and more effective IP protection around the world....
Small Business Administration (SBA)
The SBA is an independent agency that was established to aid, counsel, assist, and protect small businesses. The SBA is primarily a guarantor of loans made to small businesses. In some circumstances, it also makes loans to victims of natural disasters, facilitates government procurement contracts for small businesses, and assists…...
Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC)
The mission of the ASC is to ensure that real estate appraisers, who perform appraisals in real estate transactions that could expose the United States government to financial loss, are sufficiently trained and tested to assure competency and independent judgment according to uniform high professional standards and ethics....