National Apartment Association (NAA)
The National Apartment Association (NAA) remains committed to developing resources and guidance that promote a diverse and inclusive workforce in the rental housing industry. We encourage you to access and utilize these resources and apply them in your workplace. Newly released and free to members of NAA, “Best Practices in Diversity & Inclusion” underscores the importance of diversity and inclusion initiatives and how to best create and achieve goals associated with these programs.
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Visto’s new course by Franklin Convey, “Unconscious Bias: Understanding Bias to Unleash Potential,” helps participants identify and adjust for bias, cultivate meaningful connections and choose courage in order to make real change.
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In addition to these offerings, NAA’s Operation Solutions website features expert-based information for operational best practices across a spectrum of rental housing-related topics.
View Best Practices
Visto’s new course by Franklin Convey, “Unconscious Bias: Understanding Bias to Unleash Potential,” helps participants identify and adjust for bias, cultivate meaningful connections and choose courage in order to make real change.
View Visto Course
In addition to these offerings, NAA’s Operation Solutions website features expert-based information for operational best practices across a spectrum of rental housing-related topics.
NAA Member Survey on Incentives for Housing Newcomers
Our housing market (state or local) is high on the list of places where newcomers to the United States choose to call home when they relocate here. Newcomers, refers to refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine and other conflict zones around the world. NAA is requesting your help in gathering information on potential incentives to provide housing for these newcomers.
As you may recall, in 2022, the NAA was approached by the federal government to help in the resettlement of refugees from Afghanistan. Since then, the Russian war against Ukraine has dramatically increased the need for newcomer housing. The White House and Department of Homeland Security specifically engaged NAA to help meet housing demands.
While some progress has been made, thousands of newcomers and their families remain without permanent housing. As it is for all of us, safe, affordable and sanitary housing is integral to their successful beginning in the United States.
National collaborators in this effort (Catholic World Services and many others) are looking to increase private partnerships in the housing market. To help facilitate that, they are surveying housing providers to understand the rental landscape, factors influencing the decision to rent to prospective residents and the types of incentives that housing providers would like to see when renting to newcomers legally admitted into the United States.
Please complete this survey by Friday, March 8. The survey is strictly anonymous. No identifying information is captured. The responses are invaluable to designing programs that will be beneficial to housing providers who would like to participate in newcomer housing.
Our housing market (state or local) is high on the list of places where newcomers to the United States choose to call home when they relocate here. Newcomers, refers to refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine and other conflict zones around the world. NAA is requesting your help in gathering information on potential incentives to provide housing for these newcomers.
As you may recall, in 2022, the NAA was approached by the federal government to help in the resettlement of refugees from Afghanistan. Since then, the Russian war against Ukraine has dramatically increased the need for newcomer housing. The White House and Department of Homeland Security specifically engaged NAA to help meet housing demands.
While some progress has been made, thousands of newcomers and their families remain without permanent housing. As it is for all of us, safe, affordable and sanitary housing is integral to their successful beginning in the United States.
National collaborators in this effort (Catholic World Services and many others) are looking to increase private partnerships in the housing market. To help facilitate that, they are surveying housing providers to understand the rental landscape, factors influencing the decision to rent to prospective residents and the types of incentives that housing providers would like to see when renting to newcomers legally admitted into the United States.
Please complete this survey by Friday, March 8. The survey is strictly anonymous. No identifying information is captured. The responses are invaluable to designing programs that will be beneficial to housing providers who would like to participate in newcomer housing.
