White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council Formed

President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council and named U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson as its chairperson. The Council’s 13 Federal member agencies will engage with governments at all levels on ways to more effectively use taxpayer dollars to revitalize low-income communities. The Council will improve revitalization efforts by streamlining, coordinating, and targeting existing Federal programs to Opportunity Zones, economically distressed communities where new investments may be eligible for preferential tax treatment. Additionally, the Council will consider legislative proposals and undertake regulatory reform to remove barriers to revitalization efforts and present the President with options to encourage capital investment in economically distressed communities.

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To encourage an ongoing commitment to professional behavior and development, NAR created the C2EX platform, a mobile-compatible website for REALTORS^® to expand their understanding and application of the Commitment to Excellence Competencies. The program is defined by eleven competencies which indicate a REALTOR^®’s commitment to ethics, advocacy, technology, data privacy, outstanding customer service, and much more. Each competency is tied to tasks and learning modules which are preceded by a skills assessment to identify and measure proficiency in that area. Read more about the C2EX program here. Enter the platform here.

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If you have a hard time finding the form you need in either Zipforms or dotloop, use the search button at the top of the page in the DAR forms library on either platform. Just type in the name of the form and hit “enter” on your keyboard. This should get you to the form you need in seconds!

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Volunteers from Keller Williams Realty Central Delaware, led by Realtor Sandy Hohrein, decked downtown Dover with scarves, hats, and gloves to make them accessible to those less fortunate. They were tied onto light poles, left on benches, and placed in other areas where they could be taken, each with a note attached to say they were free to those in need. Read the article published this week in the Delaware State News here.

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