Fair Housing
A West Virginia property manager tells a Hispanic applicant that no units are available while showing a unit to a non-Hispanic applicant the same day. This is called:
ASteering
BRacial filtering
CDiscriminatory misrepresentation✓ Correct
DBlockbusting
Explanation
Telling a minority applicant that no units are available while showing units to non-minority applicants on the same day is discriminatory misrepresentation — a form of illegal housing discrimination based on national origin and race.
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