---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 100.85"
title: "24"
number: "100.85"
heading: "Blockbusting."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/100.85"
---

# §100.85. Blockbusting.

- (a) It shall be unlawful, for profit, to induce or attempt to induce a person to sell or rent a dwelling by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry into the neighborhood of a person or persons of a particular race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin or with a handicap.
- (b) In establishing a discriminatory housing practice under this section it is not necessary that there was in fact profit as long as profit was a factor for engaging in the blockbusting activity.
- (c) **Prohibited actions under this section include, but are not limited to—**
  - (1) Engaging, for profit, in conduct (including uninvited solicitations for listings) which conveys to a person that a neighborhood is undergoing or is about to undergo a change in the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin of persons residing in it, in order to encourage the person to offer a dwelling for sale or rental.
  - (2) Encouraging, for profit, any person to sell or rent a dwelling through assertions that the entry or prospective entry of persons of a particular race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin, or with handicaps, can or will result in undesirable consequences for the project, neighborhood or community, such as a lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools or other services or facilities.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 3535(d), 3600-3620.

### Source

Source: 54 FR 3283, Jan. 23, 1989, unless otherwise noted.