28 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. (APPENDIX VI Cont.) Has your firm in the past acted as sales or rental No (If the answer is "yes" for questions numbers 6 or 7): Do you have in your office(s) the full text or a summary of the Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Regulations adopted by HUD? Yes No Has your firm ever conducted a public service advertising campaign to promote equal housing opportunity? No If yes, answer question number 10. Yes Briefly describe the techniques and methods used (in What forms of media are utilized by your firm in advertising sales and rentals? Does your firm advertise sales and rentals in minority Does your firm use the Equal Housing Opportunity logotype or slogan in all display advertising? Yes No Does your firm use the equal opportunity slogan in all Does your firm use the Equal Housing Opportunity logotype on all signs posted on listed property? Yes No 17. 29 (APPENDIX VI Cont.) Does your firm advertise staff openings in minority please specify: 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Has your firm ever conducted an informational program for sales personnel and other employees to inform them of their responsibilities under the law and the Prince George's County Board of Realtors Code of Equal Housing Opportunities Practices? Yes No If yes, what is the date of the most recent informational program held? Date Does each broker or salesperson keep records of all No If the answer is "no" what specific information is How many of the clients completing sales or rental How many of the potential clients making inquiry in the last year were Black? How many of the clients completing sales or rental transaction in the last year were non-Black minorities? How many of the potential clients making inquiry in the last year were non-Black minorities? In your opinion, what action is needed to further promote equal housing opportunity? United States of America Vol. 120 Congressional Record PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 934 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1974 No. 51 House of Representatives EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under ⚫ a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. HOGAN) is rec ognized for 10 minutes. Mr. HOGAN, Mr. Speaker, with the rising demand for Housing in our country is of paramount importance that we provide equal housing opportunities and improve housing conditions for all minoritics. I have for years been saying to realtors and their associations that they have a responsibility to make housing available on a nondiscriminatory basis. I have said that if our neighborhoods were integrated we would not have a problem with busing for racial balance. I am pleased to report that the Prince Georges County Board of Realtors has recently been cited by James H. Harvey. executive director of the Housing Opportunities Council of Metropolitan Washington, for its efforts in implementing an equal housing opportunities code of practice and an affirmative action plan. The directors of the Prince Georges County Board of Realtors agreed in the voluntary plan to call upon member realtors to encourage minority real estate brokers and salesmen to become board members, to make available to all members the texts or summaries of Federal, State, and local fair housing laws and regulations, the Joint National Association of Realtors-HUD poster and code practices, and the establishment of a housing opportunities committee that includes persons who are representative of minority and nonindustry alined groups. In addition, the voluntary afirmativo action plan includes a strong new code of equal housing opportunities practices requiring members to refrain from discriminating in real estate activity. Members are requested to conspicuously post the code in all places of business. All members are subject to an investigation by the board's housing opportunities committee. The housing opportunities committee will receive complaints alleging discrimination in houang from the public and will refer violations of the code to the professional standards committee for action The Prince Georges County Board of Realtors in the first board of realtors in the country to adopt a voluntary afrmative action pin. This type of initiative in establishing a prototype prosram is deserving of special commendation and I would like to express my personal eppreciation to President John H. Hubes. Vice President Chule Grammer, and Executive Vice President Paul L. Fowler, This type of responsiveness to public need is necessary if we are to fully eliminate the duplicity and remmants of discrimination all existing, particularly in housing. Ms. DOLBEARE. Now, on affirmative marketing, the housing task force itself engaged in a project of monitoring the affirmative marketing agreements early on. I was involved in that. I visited four HUD area offices and found that in those four area offices, one only required plans for half of the projects that were covered by the regulations; they had not realized that sales housing were subject to affirmative marketing agreements. When I asked to look at them, there was a long delay. Finally, the equal opportunity officer told me the reason for the delay was that they had not required the plans in the first place and that they were going back and getting them from the developers, and ultimately we would get them. Two other area offices had the forms filed but nobody had reviewed them. The forms very clearly did not meet the requirements of the regulations. There were places that were blank. There were other places where people simply had not provided adequate answers. Finally, I went to an area office where everything looked great. The equal opportunity officer was insisting that there be affirmative marketing plans and insisting that they comply with the regulations. And I thought, "this is fine." Then we had some volunteers doing monitoring and we discovered that not one single one of those plans, so far as we could find out, was ever put into action. HUD did not have the capicity to monitor that to see what was happening. For example, practically every developer said that they were going to deal with the minority community by referring their project to the Urban League's Housing Information Service. The only trouble was the Urban League's Housing Information Service never heard from those developers about the availability of that housing. Now, the point of this really is that a great deal more needs to be done by HUD in the field to monitor performance. Just filling out forms, whether they be voluntary or compulsory, without any kind of teeth or followup becomes a meaningless exercise, if that is all it consists of. We have been very much concerned about the lack of what we consider to be a viable working relationship between HUD's equal opportunity people and civil rights and public interest groups. We are hoping this is in the process of being changed. Secretary Blair's predecessor really was almost totally unavailable to us or to any other civil rights groups. We are also concerned that HUD does not use the powers that it has. For example, we have recommended for many years that HUD extend its advertising and affirmative marketing regulations to everybody doing business with the Federal Government and to all aspects of that business. This is not the case now. Nor is there any meaningful nationwide monitoring. As I said, there is no real insistence on data. I was frankly quite surprised that some of the answers to the questions which HUD supplied for the committee here, where it says that information is not available on the location of public housing projects or whether they are in minority areas or not, or whether they are leased units or not. I say that because I have been around a number of cities. And I cannot imagine that there is any housing authority in the country that does not know where its housing projects are, and does not know what the racial characteristics of the |