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Second Century Ventures, an investment firm that is part of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), announced Monday that it has chosen eight different real estate technology companies to help as they work to expand their scale.
The eight companies will be a part of the 2021 “REACH scale-up program,” according to a statement from NAR. The best-known firm on the list, at least to Inman readers, is probably Knock, which via its Home Swap product tries to streamline the homebuying and selling process while effectively turning consumers into cash buyers.
Other companies joining the latest REACH cohort include Aryeo, which enables collaboration between real estate professionals and offers various content management solutions; furniture rental startup Feather; K4Connect, which develops technology for senior living communities; rent-to-own startup Landis; consumer experience platform Milestones; valuation forecaster Plunk; and home care tech startup Super.
For eighty years, the state historical society had two thick ledgers in its possession that went largely unnoticed by anyone other than researchers who knew what they were looking for. The ledgers belonged to a private organization and included details about the men who d attended meetings of that organization, including their names, addresses, professions and whether they d paid their membership dues. The sort of thing you would expect any organization to keep, explains Jason Hanson, chief creative officer and director of interpretation and research at History Colorado, but then you know which organization. It was the Ku Klux Klan, which had a strong grip on the centers of power in Colorado in the mid-1920s.
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Ku Klux Klan membership ledgers for the Greater Denver area, 1924-1926, were recently digitized and posted online by History Colorado. (Katie Bush, History Colorado)
For most of its 144-year statehood, Colorado has been a hotbed of institutional discrimination and racism that privileges white culture over all others. That’s the case in most states, unfortunately, but forward-thinking historians have been working to shed light on that in recent years.
Exhibit A: History Colorado’s digitized Ku Klux Klan ledgers, which debuted online this week at historycolorado.org/kkkledgers. The archive, which contains 1,300 pages of original KKK membership records, only covers the years 1924 through 1926, but its contents are stunning.
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
Century-old KKK ledgers for Denver are now digitized and available to the public
History Colorado released the digitized ledgers online this week to help confront systems of inequality and examine truths from the state s past. Author: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Updated: 9:05 PM MDT April 22, 2021
DENVER A century ago, tens of thousands of people in Denver and the surrounding area joined the Ku Klux Klan, and their names were recorded in two ledgers that History Colorado has now digitized and made available for free online.
The ledgers include nearly 30,000 entries on 1,300 pages from the 1920s and 1930s. They are the largest archival item digitally available from History Colorado s collection, the museum announced on Monday.