Local – With updates on member and staff advocacy engagement!
Columbus REALTORS® members express opposition to rental registry, property inspection policy proposal
- Earlier this evening, Columbus City Council held a public hearing on a Rental Registry and Property Inspection policy proposal.
- Members (from left to right) include: Columbus REALTORS® Past President John Myers, Brian Bainbridge, and Gerry O’Neil, who provided in-person testimony today. Written testimony from Bridgid Davis-Ray and Ian Thickstun will be sent to council expressing their opposition and concerns.
- Columbus REALTORS® staff and members will continue to engage with council to negotiate policy changes, once legislation is officially made public.
- Attached is the most recent policy proposal. Feel free to send your comments to government affairs staff.
Columbus REALTORS® advocacy staff present to Village of Commercial Point (Pickaway County) Land Use Committee
- This week Government Affairs Director Coleman and Government Affairs Manager Juliana Behnke presented before the Commercial Point Land Use Committee.
- Staff provided information on community outreach grant resources available for the village as well as advocated for the adoption of the Housing Ohio Pattern book.
- Learn more about the Housing Ohio pattern book, HERE.
- The pattern book is an approved policy priority by the Association’s Board of Directors, which came to the body as a recommendation by the Government Affairs Issues Advocacy Committee in Q1 2025.
- Columbus REALTORS® members, in the past calendar year, were successful in bringing in close to $90K to central Ohio in grants – your dues dollars being brought back home to improve communities across the region.
National –
NAR Opposes Fair Housing Rollback
- Recently, NAR submitted comments to HUD on its proposed rule, “HUD’s Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard.”
- The proposed rule would eliminate HUD’s current rule providing guidance for HUD’s implementation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Texas Dept. of Housing & Community Affairs. v. Inclusive Communities Project, which, In that case, the Supreme Court held that disparate impact liability was cognizable under the Fair Housing Act.
- NAR argued in its comments noted that disparate impact liability under the Fair Housing Act is settled law, and that HUD should continue to use this legal doctrine to protect property rights
Click/tap on the picture below to watch President Gloria Alonso Cannon’s January Housing Report Breakdown
