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About This Course
This two-hour course fulfills the Oregon Fair Housing Required Course Continuing Education requirement by providing a comprehensive understanding of fair housing laws and ethical responsibilities. Its purpose is to equip real estate professionals with historical insight, legal clarity, and practical tools to prevent discrimination in today’s housing market.
What You’ll Gain
- A solid understanding of your legal responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act
- The ability to identify and prevent discriminatory practices
- Confidence in applying Fair Housing principles in everyday transactions
- 2 hours of approved continuing education credit toward your license renewal
By connecting past injustices to present-day practices, the course positions fair housing as both a compliance obligation and a professional standard. Topics covered include:
- Historical Foundations
- Racially restrictive covenants, redlining, and segregationist lending
- How these practices shaped generational wealth gaps
- The evolution of fair housing protections, including the Fair Housing Act of 1968
- Oregon’s expanded protections under ORS 659A (source of income, domestic violence survivor status, sexual orientation, and more)
- Fair Housing in Today’s Practice
- Discrimination risks in sales, leasing, advertising, lending, and property management
- Oregon-specific enforcement examples from HUD, BOLI, and the Oregon Real Estate Agency
- Practical steps to prevent violations and maintain compliance
- Modern & Emerging Challenges
- Implicit bias in decision-making
- Digital redlining and online advertising concerns
- Algorithmic discrimination in screening, valuation, and AI-driven tools
- Ethical use of technology with transparency and human oversight
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Who Should Take This Course
This course is designed for licensed Oregon real estate brokers and principal brokers who are renewing their licenses for the 2026–2027 renewal cycle. It fulfills Oregon’s new Continuing Education requirement and is essential for licensees seeking to remain compliant while strengthening their understanding of fair housing law, ethics, and modern practice challenges.
Topics Covered
This course focuses on the following topics:
- Foundations of Fair Housing: History, Federal Protections, and Oregon’s Expanded Standards
- From Bias to Compliance: Prohibited Practices and Practical Enforcement in Oregon Real Estate Sales, Property Management, and Screening
- Modern Fair Housing in Oregon: Enforcement, Algorithmic Bias, and Ethical Practice
What You’ll Learn
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Articulate the relationship between lifetime wealth accumulation and homeownership, and analyze how unequal access to housing contributes to the perpetuation of intergenerational wealth disparities and poverty.
- Define racial inequality as the unequal distribution of resources, power, and economic opportunity across racial groups within a societal framework.
- Examine pivotal moments in the United States Civil Rights Movement that have influenced access to housing and shaped contemporary housing policy.
- Enumerate the fundamental civil rights afforded to individuals under U.S. law as they pertain to housing.
- Identify the legally recognized protected classes under the Fair Housing Act and interpret their implications within the context of equitable housing practices.
- Differentiate between forms of discrimination, including individual acts, systemic patterns, and practices that contribute to structural inequities in housing.
- Detect and critique insidious or ostensibly neutral practices that yield discriminatory outcomes in housing markets or policies.
- Evaluate the ethical and professional responsibilities of practitioners operating within an industry marked by a legacy of discrimination and ongoing inequity.
- Define and distinguish key concepts—algorithmic discrimination, digital redlining, and the use of proxies within the intersection of artificial intelligence and fair housing.
- Analyze how biased datasets, opacity in algorithmic systems, and inadequate oversight contribute to discriminatory outcomes in AI-mediated housing processes such as tenant screening, mortgage lending, and property valuation.
- Assess and propose strategies for mitigating algorithmic discrimination through human oversight, continuous auditing, and the promotion of equitable practices in the digital housing ecosystem.
| Name: | Oregon Real Estate Agency |
| Phone: | 503-378-4170 |
| Website URL: | https://www.oregon.gov/REA/pages/index.aspx |
| Email Address: | orea.info@state.or.us |
| Address: | 1177 Center St. NE |
| City: | Salem |
| State: | OR |
| Zip: | 97301-2505 |
