LIBOR Honors Fair Housing Month with “Widening the Lens” Conversation
Long Island Board of Realtors (LIBOR) presented “Widening the Lens: A Fair Housing Conversation” at The Mansion at Oyster Bay on April 28.
The event welcomed a panel of fair housing experts and advocates, including Bill Dedman, an investigative reporter for Newsday; Bryan Greene, vice president of policy advocacy at the National Association of REALTORS; and Alexia Smokler, director of Fair Housing Policy and Programs for an in-depth conversation on the state of fair housing today.
Long Island Divided, an investigative journalism series published by Newsday in 2019, started a national conversation about the state of fair housing 50 years after becoming law. In the three and a half years since its publication, the conversation has widened to bring inequities in lending and appraisal into sharper focus.
The event concluded with a networking reception hosted by LIBOR’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
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