Fair Housing
Blockbusting is defined as:
ARefusing to make loans in certain neighborhoods
BInducing panic selling by homeowners by suggesting that minorities are moving into the area✓ Correct
CCharging discriminatory rents
DSteering buyers to segregated neighborhoods
Explanation
Blockbusting is the illegal practice of inducing homeowners to sell by suggesting that persons of a protected class are moving into the area, thereby causing panic selling and a decline in property values.
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