Fair Housing
Under the Fair Housing Act, a real estate professional who uses a zip code or neighborhood map for targeted direct mail to only white neighborhoods is:
AUsing normal geographic marketing
BPotentially engaging in discriminatory marketing by excluding minority neighborhoods✓ Correct
CFollowing HUD's geographic marketing guidelines
DPermitted because mail campaigns are not covered by Fair Housing
Explanation
Geographic marketing that intentionally excludes minority neighborhoods (or only markets to predominantly white areas) can constitute discriminatory marketing under the Fair Housing Act's advertising and solicitation provisions.
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