REALTORS® are ideally situated to improve housing opportunities where they live. They are the first stop for the prospective home buyer or renter. Accordingly, REALTORS® can reach out – through personal involvement in their own communities – to those who need greater access to quality, affordable home ownership and rental opportunities.

NAR's Housing Opportunity Program was created in 2002 with the vision of positioning, educating and assisting REALTORS® to create housing opportunities for all. The Housing Opportunity Program offers programs, grants, trainings, and resources that help REALTORS® and REALTOR® associations expand housing availability and insure an adequate supply of rental housing and home ownership opportunities in their communities.

Get Involved

• Attend an Employer-Assisted Housing or Expanding Housing Opportunities class.
• Become an EHO or EAH class instructor.
• Apply for Funding to Support a Housing Program
• Sponsor an Employer-Assisted Housing or an Expanding Housing Opportunities Class
• Become involved with Workforce Housing

Video: The New Face of Housing Opportunity

May the (Work)force Be With You

Watch as President Ron Phipps highlights NAR's support for Bring Workers Home forums and examines how REALTORS® can expand housing opportunities for workers such as first responders.

The Ira Gribin Workforce Housing Grants Final Report

The Ira Gribin Workforce Housing Grants were designed to support Realtors®' efforts to address workforce housing issues state-by-state. When the program ended in December 2010, 52 state and territory associations had been awarded grants totaling $4.93 million. At the 2011 Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo, NAR released the Ira Gribin Grants final report. The report, Tackling Workforce Housing State by State, not only provides an an analysis of the program and its results, but it's a great resource for associations interested in developing programs in their communities to meet the housing needs of working families.