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Interview with the California Association of Realtor’s Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Farrah Wilder

In this video segment, you will find:

• 00:00 – Recognition of Vickie Lobo’s NAR Award

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.

• 08:37 – Interview with Farrah Wilder

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.

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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.

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Interview with Executive Vice President of Lewis Group of Companies, Randall Lewis

• 00:00 – Introduction
• 01:40 – History of Lewis Group
• 06:06 – Activities in the IE and across CA
• 06:59 – Empire Lakes Project, Rancho Cucamonga
• 11:22 – Unique Apartment Implementations
• 14:25 – Variety of Housing Options
• 16:04 – Development Challenges/Opportunities
• 23:04 – Cost Equation for Development
• 26:10 – Mobility of Capital
• 28:11 – Impacts of Split Roll
• 29:03 – Favorite Project
• 30:08 – Learning and Continuous Improvement
• 32:06 – Crystal Ball for the Inland Empire
• 34:45 – Lifestyle and Quality of Life
• 36:45 – Wrap-up