""Contrary to publicly available materials from industry leaders on steering, real estate agents and brokers do not violate the Fair Housing Act merely by discussing with prospective homebuyers or renters the prevalence of crime or the quality of schools in neighborhoods," HUD Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Craig Trainor wrote in a 'Dear Colleague' letter to real estate agents."
""During the Biden Administration, major real estate brokerages and listing platforms discouraged or restricted the sharing of neighborhood information, citing fair housing concerns," HUD said in a press release. "These changes were shaped not by the law's requirements but out of an effort to implement diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ideology.""
""The new guidance further states that HUD's Fair Housing Initiatives Program should not issue findings of discrimination based on agents providing school and crime data to customers in an equal and consistent manner or truthfully answering nonracial questions on those topics.""
The Department of Housing and Urban Development clarified that real estate agents may share neighborhood crime rates and school quality data with clients without violating the Fair Housing Act. This guidance follows the removal of such data from major platforms due to a previous directive from the Biden administration. The new guidance states that sharing this information is not discriminatory as long as race is not mentioned. It emphasizes that agents can provide this data consistently and truthfully without facing discrimination findings.
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