SB 1495: Implicit Bias Resources
SB 1495 requires Real Estate Practice courses shall include a component on implicit bias, including education regarding the impact of implicit bias, explicit bias, and systemic bias on consumers, the historical and social impacts of those biases, and actionable steps students can take to recognize and address their own implicit biases.
The following is a list of resources that may be useful in meeting this education requirement for California Community Colleges real estate students:
Implicit, Explicit and Systemic Biases Paper & Assignment Outline (CCCREEC)
Reducing Bias in Home Appraisals: The Roles for Policy and Technology (Terner Center for Housing Innovation)
Mapping Inequality - Redlining in New Deal America (University of Richmond, Virginia Tech, and University of Maryland)
Project Implicit (Harvard University)
Implicit Bias Training Module Series (Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University)
Identifying Bias and Barriers, Promoting Equity: An Analysis of USPAP Standards and Appraisal Qualification Criteria (National Fair Housing Alliance, commissioned by the Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, 2022)
Race Brokers, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Ph.D. (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Neighborhoods, Race, and the Twenty-first-century Housing Appraisal Industry, Howell & Korver-Glenn (2018)
Challenging Race as Risk: How Implicit Bias undermines housing opportunity in America and what we can do about it (Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, The Ohio State University)
Housing Appraisal and Race, Junia Howell, Ph.D.
How to think about Implicit Bias, Pain, Niemi, & Doris (2018)
Implicit Bias and Structural Racialization, Osta & Vasquez (National Equity Project)
Implicit Bias Real Estate Assignment, Alana Gates (Santiago Canyon College) * Canvas Commons - can be imported directly to your Canvas shell