Learn with Dr. Lee®: Award-Winning, International Educator + Business Coach: mcnamara fallacy

<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-56dbd299-7fff-e7ae-cd76-3d336393edb5"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As featured in <a href="https://ypn.realtor/the-lounge/making-meaning-of-fair-housing-data-people-over-percentages/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">RealtorMag YPN The Lounge</span></a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj969nKIvsgA3bzi2-uJTpYQwfd-keBDOxWfv4uxw5dZf_yM1YSbi3IUwnCzqe7EyRrq1nrFNYasPLA0Echus3BBW1F13bg_iVZv5RIJDE98HfhZWkjYEqY6WEYOpugJ0KPdk5s9urozZbLsPqkurGL0oJoNm4bEdDbBt2y3u8BLYoKpFJ1czOiwHAiFiQ/s8448/ali-rezaei-7i37OaU1slU-unsplash.jpg" style="clear: left; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-size: medium;">It is such an honor every single time I have the privilege of sharing with agents throughout the nation the history of unfair housing, where we are today, and how we can proactively advocate (not alienate) for housing opportunity and access for all (what I call being a “fair housing DECODER”). </span></span></span></div><div><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I was recently facilitating at a fair housing conference, and one of the learners made a genuine comment to the effect of:</span></span></div><div><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“If there are approximately </span><a href="https://nationalfairhousing.org/resource/2024-fair-housing-trends-report/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: 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;">30,000 fair housing violations</span></a></b></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i><b> reported last year throughout the entire US, but there are easily millions of transactions between renting and buying each year, then we’re not doing so bad. The problem is not so big – we don’t need to really talk about this.”</b></i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><i><br></i></b></span><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span></span></span><p></p></span></span></div>