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blockbusting's Usage Examples:

Like most other Southside communities, Auburn Gresham suffered from blockbusting, rising crime, and white flight during the 1960s: the neighborhood was nearly 100% white in 1960, but flipped to being 69% black by the 1970 census.

For example, by 1962, when blockbusting had been a common practice for some fifteen years, the city of Chicago had more than 100 real estate companies that had been, on average, changing two to three blocks a week annually.

of subsidized housing and discusses the phenomenons of white flight, blockbusting, and racial covenants, and their role in housing segregation.

Methods The term blockbusting might have originated in Chicago, Illinois, where real estate companies and building developers used agents provocateurs.

The film focused on incidents such as the 1960s blockbusting of the then-largely Jewish Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side of.

and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration.

It was predominantly white (99%) until segregation ended and blockbusting began in the 1960s.

ReactionsIn 1962, blockbusting – real estate profiteering – was nationally exposed by The Saturday Evening Post with the article Confessions of a Block-Buster, which explained how realtors gained profit by frightening white Americans to sell at a loss, in order to quickly resettle to racially segregated better neighborhoods.

In response to political pressure from sellers and buyers, states and cities legally restricted door-to-door real estate solicitation, the posting of FOR SALE signs, and authorized government licensing agencies to investigate the blockbusting complaints of buyers and sellers in order to revoke the real estate sales licenses of blockbusters.

This was called blockbusting.

With blockbusting, real estate companies legally profited from the arbitrage, the difference between the discounted price paid to frightened white sellers and the artificially high price paid by black buyers whose houses were often foreclosed on as a result of these unfair contracts.

in Edmondson Village as a result of the real estate sales process of blockbusting between 1955 and 1965.

He has manufactured archery equipment for such blockbusting cinematography as Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, The 13th Warrior, Eragon.