When Unscrupulous Lenders Targeted Poor and Minority Home Buyers in the Run-Up

question 5

Multiple Choice

When unscrupulous lenders targeted poor and minority home buyers in the run-up to the recent housing bubble, they engaged in the practice of

• A) discrimination.
• B) reverse redlining.
• C) ethnic targeting.
• D) class warfare.

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