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blockbusting

The illegal practice of inducing home-owners to sell their properties by making representations regarding the entry or prospective entry of persons of a particular race or national origin into the neighborhood.

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  1. Blockbusting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Blockbusting is a business practice of U.S. real estate agents and building developers meant to encourage white property owners to sell their houses at a loss, ...
     
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    “Blockbusting” refers to the efforts of real-estate agents and real-estate speculators to trigger the turnover of white-owned property and homes to African ...
     
  3. Blockbusting - Legal Dictionary - The Free Dictionary
    The practice of illegally frightening homeowners by telling them that people who are members of a particular race, religion, or national origin are moving into ...
     
  4. blockbusting - The Free Dictionary
    block·bust·ing (bl k b s t ng). n. Informal. The practice of persuading white homeowners to sell quickly and usually at a loss by appealing to the fear that minority ...
     
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    Definition of blockbusting: The illegal and discriminatory practice of helping ethnic or minority individuals into predominantly non-ethnic or minority- dominated ...
     
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  7. Blockbusting | Define Blockbusting at Dictionary.com
    the profiteering practice by unscrupulous real-estate agents or speculators of reselling or renting homes that they obtain by inducing panic selling at prices ...
     
  8. A Requiem for Blockbusting - The Fordham Law School Institutional ...
    Blockbusting and panic peddling are real estate practices in which ... Panic peddling and blockbusting did occur in Chicago during the. 1960s and early 1970s.