Fair Housing

A Texas real estate brokerage that maintains a policy of not showing properties in certain price ranges to avoid serving a specific demographic is engaged in:

AReasonable price-segmentation marketing
BPotential Fair Housing Act violations through steering or other discriminatory practices based on the intent behind the policy✓ Correct
CAllowed business practice under TREC licensing rules
DA practice that only violates local ordinances

Explanation

While price-range specialization can be legitimate, policies designed to avoid serving specific demographics (even indirectly through price range limitations) can constitute discrimination. If the purpose or effect of limiting service to certain price ranges is to avoid serving protected classes, it violates the Fair Housing Act.

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