Fair Housing

An Oklahoma property manager who uses zip codes or school district names in a discriminatory way to screen potential tenants — knowing those boundaries correlate with racial composition — may be engaging in:

AStandard geographic market analysis
BDisparate impact discrimination, where a facially neutral policy has a discriminatory effect on protected classes and lacks sufficient business justification✓ Correct
CLegitimate economic risk management
DBehavior protected by the First Amendment

Explanation

Using proxy criteria that correlate with race (zip codes, school districts) as screening tools can constitute disparate impact discrimination under the Fair Housing Act. The Supreme Court confirmed disparate impact claims are actionable under the FHA in Texas Dept. of Housing v. Inclusive Communities (2015).

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