Interview with Phil Burum, Vice President at DR Horton’s South Coast Inland Empire Division – February 2021
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In his role with DR Horton, Phil’s primary responsibilities are focused on land entitlements and acquisitions analysis. In his more than 20 year career in the real estate industry of Southern California, Mr. Burum has been responsible for the acquisition and entitlement of more than 7,000 residential lots and the development, construction and sale of more than 2,000 lots and homes located throughout the Inland Empire.
In support of his passion advocating for home ownership, Phil spends much of his time working with local agencies to find solutions that will help alleviate the housing shortage facing California, in part by, finding rational and reasonable entitlement solutions for land throughout the region. |
Fair Housing and Diversity Committee Meeting- January 2021
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Guest speaker Mark Alston, Broker/Owner of Alston & Associates Mortgage Company.
A real estate professional since 1989, Mark has served as 1st Vice President of the California Association of Real Estate Brokers, President of the Consolidated Board of Realtist of Los Angeles, Chairman of the Public Affairs, Political Action and Mortgage Banking Committees for the National Association of Real Estate Brokers. |
Interview with Aaron Norris – Vice President Market Insights, PropertyRadar.com
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Real Estate Trends in 2021 Technology disruptors like ibuyers have been in the Inland Empire since 2017. More are entering the space, much of it happening off market and behind the scenes. How can local agents win and tackle more off market deals for clients in 2021?Here’s what we’ll cover:
Data isn’t just a Wall Street game anymore! Data-driven real estate will be an important way to differentiate services moving ahead in 2021 and beyond. Aaron is an industry expert in real estate, investing, and marketing trends. His work can be found on Forbes.com, Think Realty Magazine, and BiggerPockets.com, where technology, trends, and real estate collide. Aaron is a licensed real estate broker (CA) and mortgage broker (CA & FL), and active real estate investor. |
Interview with the California Association of Realtor’s Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Farrah Wilder
In this video segment, you will find:Fontana Realtor Vickie Lobo has been named one of five 2020 Good Neighbor Award winners by the National Association of Realtors. Lobo was honored nationally because she founded Knock Knock Angels, which furnishes apartments and homes for people in search of a second chance after experiencing life-altering challenges like addiction, domestic violence or homelessness. NAR’s Good Neighbor Awards honor ONLY 10 Realtors annually for making an extraordinary impact on their communities through volunteer work. Also joining Ms. Wilder will be IVAR brokers Kama Burton, IVAR Treasurer and Chairperson for the Fair Housing and Diversity Committee, and Doug Shepherd, who currently sits on the board of directors with the Fair Housing Council of Riverside County and the Southern California Civil Rights Institute. |
During the interview with Farrah Wilder, the following topic was discussed. To help provide context to this conversation, the following information is provided: In one of the most concentrated investigations of discrimination by real estate agents in the half century since enactment of America’s landmark fair housing law, Newsday found evidence of widespread separate and unequal treatment of minority potential home buyers and minority communities on Long Island. The three-year probe strongly indicates that house hunting in one of the nation’s most segregated suburbs poses substantial risks of discrimination, with black buyers chancing disadvantages almost half the time they enlist brokers. Additionally, the investigation reveals that Long Island’s dominant residential brokering firms help solidify racial separations. They frequently directed white customers toward areas with the highest white representations and minority buyers to more integrated neighborhoods. The Color of Law: In The Color of Law (2017), Richard Rothstein takes what once was a familiar narrative of racial segregation in America and turns it decisively on its head. With bountiful evidence and rigorous detail, Rothstein rejects the prevailing view, upheld to this day by the Supreme Court, that individual decisions create a natural geography of “de facto” racial segregation in our cities, and argues instead that our government at all levels abetted and sponsored what is in fact “de jure” segregation. This is the heart of The Color of Law. According to Rothstein, the government has systematically violated the rights it created in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Bill of Rights for black Americans, and his book is essentially a treatise that methodically uncovers this narrative of history. Each chapter of the book presents a careful yet forceful analysis of historical data, records, and events that uncover this “de jure” segregation across all facets of our cities. Rothstein demonstrates how public housing, zoning, insurance policies, taxation, labor unions, and police forces all developed and executed racially targeted policies and practices that created wide-spread discrimination and inequality at the hands of the government. |
