NAR: Housing Equality, Commercial Recovery Are Top Priorities
National real estate leaders are urging Congress to consider reforms to ease lending restrictions for commercial properties, as well prioritizing support for commercial members who have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19.
CHICAGO – With racial equity at the forefront of American consciousness, the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) will focus the bulk of its policy priorities this year on improving equal access to housing, association leaders said earlier this week during NAR 360, a Facebook Live event that was the unofficial kickoff of the virtual 2021 Realtors® Legislative Meetings, set for May 3-14, 2021.
Earlier this year, NAR put its efforts into securing favorable real estate provisions in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a new round of COVID-19 relief legislation. Now the association is turning its attention to closing the widening racial homeownership gap and broadening fair housing protecti