Did You Know? Jesse Jackson Predicted the 2007 Housing Crash and Spent 10 Years Trying to Stop It

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89b03175-7fff-e9f4-8974-628991c70de8"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2026/02/20/how-jesse-jackson-predicted-and-tried-to-stop-the-2007-crash/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a>. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o-lf4NdOZ90" width="320" youtube-src-id="o-lf4NdOZ90"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: Times; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Caption: One of my favorite childhood memories of Sesame Street is this video with Rev. Jesse Jackson. </i></div></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In February 2007, eight months before the stock market would begin its historic plunge and nearly a year before the word "bailout" entered every American household's vocabulary, the Reverend Jesse Jackson stood before the </span><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110shrg50309/pdf/CHRG-110shrg50309.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs with a warning</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> that now reads like prophecy.<span></span></span></p></span></div></span></div>

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Did You Know? Jesse Jackson Predicted the 2007 Housing Crash and Spent 10 Years Trying to Stop It

As featured in Inman News . Caption: One of my favorite childhood memories of Sesame Street is this video with Rev. Jesse Jackson. In Februa...

The ANTM Trap: When Smart Leaders with Good Intentions Still Fail the IRL Ethics Test

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space: normal;">As featured in <a href="https://www.housingwire.com/articles/the-antm-trap-when-smart-leaders-with-good-intentions-still-fail-the-irl-ethics-test/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">HousingWire</span></a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lEaICackkZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="lEaICackkZM"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa9b0903-7fff-cdc8-28d3-a25dcecba915" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; white-space: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the feast or famine world of real estate, it can be easy to myopically focus on the bottom line (closing the deal and your commission). But a recent deep dive into a seemingly unrelated pop culture phenomenon offers a stark reminder that how we achieve success is just as important as the success itself.⁣<span></span></span></p></span></div></span></div>

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The ANTM Trap: When Smart Leaders with Good Intentions Still Fail the IRL Ethics Test

As featured in HousingWire .  In the feast or famine world of real estate, it can be easy to myopically focus on the bottom line (closing th...

How We All Can Be a "Fair Housing Equalizer"

<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As featured in </span><a href="https://www.housingwire.com/articles/dr-lee-davenport-fair-housing-equalizer/" style="font-size: x-small;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">HousingWire</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWGS_eHCy6ZeOY2AB9f35HQjjZz22SS6dyBjeNkMnT8dGAKa9oz_wKaHt1z35ks65roSC5roEgFPo-yoniVwbD3uo-c3ir083P-1FUR8nwZ57T_H-1zvKaYxUrWCbqY3WgrSB9B_0o9-kXa_EYfK4tGtNfQr8lJEjFpNv_4AP20Mwj9_rhqsJbCIPGew/s4728/dillon-kydd-pvdx8c6Y5BY-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3152" data-original-width="4728" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWGS_eHCy6ZeOY2AB9f35HQjjZz22SS6dyBjeNkMnT8dGAKa9oz_wKaHt1z35ks65roSC5roEgFPo-yoniVwbD3uo-c3ir083P-1FUR8nwZ57T_H-1zvKaYxUrWCbqY3WgrSB9B_0o9-kXa_EYfK4tGtNfQr8lJEjFpNv_4AP20Mwj9_rhqsJbCIPGew/s320/dillon-kydd-pvdx8c6Y5BY-unsplash.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span face="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;">Caption: Photo by </span><a href="https://unsplash.com/@kyddvisuals?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, opacity 0.1s ease-in-out;">Dillon Kydd</a><span face="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;"> on </span><a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-and-white-wooden-house-near-green-trees-under-blue-sky-during-daytime-pvdx8c6Y5BY?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, opacity 0.1s ease-in-out;">Unsplash</a>. </i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: large;">As real estate practitioners, I know you wear many "hats", from negotiator to contract specialist to, at times, even unofficial marriage counselor (yeesh!) and chauffeur. <span></span></span></div></b></div>

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How We All Can Be a "Fair Housing Equalizer"

As featured in HousingWire .  Caption: Photo by  Dillon Kydd  on  Unsplash .  As real estate practitioners, I know you wear many "hats...

The "Benito Bowl" Backdrop: How Bad Bunny's DtMF is a Good Catalyst for Remembering Fair Housing and Black History

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b452c55-7fff-b5be-3e13-f719cd5c7dd3"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2026/02/10/how-bad-bunnys-dtmf-spotlights-fair-housing-and-black-history/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You may have FOMO (the fear of missing out) from time to time but what about DtMF? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DtMF stands for “Debí tirar más fotos” (translation: I should have taken more pictures). Sage words to close the Super Bowl LX half-time show by the Grammy-winning artist, Bad Bunny (whose U.S. government name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio). But one thing about me is I’m going to have “50-eleven” photos and videos from every event (<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/mlyv3oQBCKc?feature=share" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">like here at the YouTube Super Bowl LX party</span></a>) so DtMF is NOT my struggle, ha!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><span style="font-family: Times; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mlyv3oQBCKc" width="320" youtube-src-id="mlyv3oQBCKc"></iframe></div><br></span></span></div></span></div>

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The "Benito Bowl" Backdrop: How Bad Bunny's DtMF is a Good Catalyst for Remembering Fair Housing and Black History

As featured in Inman News . You may have FOMO (the fear of missing out) from time to time but what about DtMF? DtMF stands for “Debí tirar m...

"Where Do We Go From Here?" From MLK’s Dream to Our Responsibilities to Make Housing Fairer Than We Found It

<div style="text-align: center;"><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0f626c9a-7fff-3069-c525-b7bb7516b0f1"><span><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2026/01/19/where-do-we-go-from-here-6-actions-real-estate-agents-can-take-to-keep-mlks-dream-alive-in-2026/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjO-YEWWUpupFz0Su08-TIsDa8dYKxOkbrF_dFxoznMFESxFnOuq0Q2i5GrOVKU2DAhtOrh2YbHAWxYMc3m2-Rcsv8m0TsxPLbn7iBfDQrDT7gyItCTUNwMhjDBmD_2i2iG5oPEk1mrKn5HDTjA-mISixr3tZXbY-iGMD_uJgVe3lg-oy8DCxAS3j7Yc/s5000/unseen-histories-bTF3gkd2L28-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3963" data-original-width="5000" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjO-YEWWUpupFz0Su08-TIsDa8dYKxOkbrF_dFxoznMFESxFnOuq0Q2i5GrOVKU2DAhtOrh2YbHAWxYMc3m2-Rcsv8m0TsxPLbn7iBfDQrDT7gyItCTUNwMhjDBmD_2i2iG5oPEk1mrKn5HDTjA-mISixr3tZXbY-iGMD_uJgVe3lg-oy8DCxAS3j7Yc/s320/unseen-histories-bTF3gkd2L28-unsplash.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Caption: Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-243e7335-7fff-b1cf-bf1f-3ba7d7f8c5ef" style="font-size: large;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>Dr. King’s 1967 question isn’t rhetorical for real estate professionals. Here are six simple action items that answer his call with a 2026 flair, ensuring we can make the housing industry fairer than we found it.</i></span></p></span></div></span></span></span></div></div>

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"Where Do We Go From Here?" From MLK’s Dream to Our Responsibilities to Make Housing Fairer Than We Found It

As featured in Inman News .  Caption: Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash. Dr. King’s 1967 question isn’t rhetorical for real estate profe...

Escape the Sales 'Upside Down': How to Right Your Marketing Strategy in 2026

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35ec22a4-7fff-f6e2-4948-699f76ebfe1a"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As featured in <a href="https://ypn.realtor/the-lounge/stranger-things-2026-marketing-strategy-real-estate/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Realtor Magazine's YPN Lounge</span></a>. <br></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiChA2uuUR8Zr-ML9x8LHxgdn03O6xv0G7CoGVJ5S5tHjBOxgTWncqTrZwUhLBrz1W6eSDHNjmIN9GxMa52P6_lCn2INBswZHlqXQOXuaF2a8qivtrsafg6_HzfxJRL5XBbTHrJwdKBGpxlJxmNXkVFq5y3hbhFcjV6Bsq45Ut4tYTOjPHZSh1fnuUvN_4/s1080/592467966_10237842015846102_5689634542208321310_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiChA2uuUR8Zr-ML9x8LHxgdn03O6xv0G7CoGVJ5S5tHjBOxgTWncqTrZwUhLBrz1W6eSDHNjmIN9GxMa52P6_lCn2INBswZHlqXQOXuaF2a8qivtrsafg6_HzfxJRL5XBbTHrJwdKBGpxlJxmNXkVFq5y3hbhFcjV6Bsq45Ut4tYTOjPHZSh1fnuUvN_4/s320/592467966_10237842015846102_5689634542208321310_n.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Caption: Erica from </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Stranger Things</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></i></div><p style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; white-space: normal;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">⁣</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If you're a solopreneur, then you are your business's Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">among many things</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. And, unlike most careers, there are active marketing campaigns that spoof and diminish the work of real estate professionals, such as this video by a popular content creator, titled “<a href="https://youtu.be/el_J4DE8WnA?si=4E7JWymG9z2EddfR" target="_blank">Realtors are SCAM ARTISTS</a>,” ugh! In other words, your 2026 marketing strategy can't be an afterthought if you want to minimize as much as possible the infamous "revenue rollercoaster" (my term for the infamous "feast or famine" cycle). Let’s learn from one of 2025's biggest cultural moments: <i>Stranger Things</i> (even if you didn't watch it or like how it ended). Here’s a sneak peek into what my MBA students are learning, framed as three critical questions for your 2026 business plan.⁣</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span></span></p></span></div></span></div>

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Escape the Sales 'Upside Down': How to Right Your Marketing Strategy in 2026

As featured in Realtor Magazine's YPN Lounge .  Caption: Erica from Stranger Things . ⁣ If you're a solopreneur, then you are your b...