Question

A real estate developer encourages a bunch of homeowners to sell their properties very quickly because people of a certain protected class are moving into the neighborhood and this will lead to them losing all of their property value. The real estate developer is engaging is what illegal activity:

Answer 1

Answer:

Blockbusting

Explanation:

Blockbusting is the illegal activity by real estate where they convince property owners to sell their homes at low prices by saying a protected class (for example racial minorities) will soon move into the neighbourhood.

The argument they use is that when the protected class of people enter into the neighbourhood the properties will lose all value.

This is an illegal activity that is aimed at forcing property owners to sell at low prices