Fair Housing
A NJ real estate agent who tells a prospective buyer 'You wouldn't want to live in that neighborhood—the schools aren't good for your children' based on the racial composition of the school may be engaged in:
ALegitimate buyer counseling
BIllegal racial steering✓ Correct
CAppropriate market analysis
DProtected free speech
Explanation
Using school quality as a proxy for racial composition to steer buyers away from neighborhoods constitutes illegal racial steering under the federal Fair Housing Act and the NJ LAD.
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