Fair Housing
A landlord tells a prospective tenant that the apartment is already rented when it is actually still available, because the prospective tenant is Hispanic. This is an example of:
ABlockbusting
BRedlining
CSteering
DDiscriminatory misrepresentation✓ Correct
Explanation
Telling a prospective tenant that a unit is unavailable when it is actually available, based on a protected class characteristic, is discriminatory misrepresentation — a violation of the Fair Housing Act.
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