What housing practice involved selling white homes for cheap in fear of Blacks and charging higher prices to Black families?

• A. Nationality
• B. Block Busting
• C. Apartheid
• D. Great Migration

Answer: (B)

Block busting is a housing practice where real estate agents exploited white homeowners’ fear of Black families moving into the neighborhood. By convincing them to sell their homes at depressed prices, they could later resell those same properties to Black buyers at much higher prices. This manipulation of property values based on race helped drive rapid demographic changes and reinforced segregation in urban areas. The other terms refer to different concepts: nationality relates to citizenship, apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa, and the Great Migration describes a large-scale movement of African Americans to northern cities, not a deceptive real estate tactic.