Fair Housing
A Massachusetts real estate agent who tells white homeowners that minorities are 'moving into the neighborhood' to prompt them to sell quickly is engaged in:
ASteering
BBlockbusting (panic selling)✓ Correct
CRedlining
DDisparate treatment
Explanation
Blockbusting (also called panic selling or panic peddling) is the illegal practice of inducing homeowners to sell by making representations about the entry of members of a protected class into the neighborhood. It violates the federal Fair Housing Act and Massachusetts Chapter 151B.
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