Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WWL’s Charise Gibson talks with New Orleanians about blockbusting, a practice of moving Black families into white areas to spark ...

Blockbusting. A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, causing property values to decline. The property is ...

Blockbusting has not been a major force in California life since the early 1980s, when civil rights laws took hold strongly. Those laws prevented brokers from trying to scare white homeowners into ...

A Virginia-based developer seeking to turn a single family home into an eight-unit condo building has been accused of housing discrimination and blockbusting, an old tactic of real estate ...