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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the NAR:

“Steering” under the Fair Housing Act is the process of influencing a buyer’s choice of communities [b]based upon the buyer’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, familial status, or national origin.[/b] Steering on the basis of any of the characteristics defined under the Fair Housing Act is not only unethical, it’s illegal because it limits the housing opportunities available to that buyer. [b]Steering occurs when an agent limits the housing options available to a buyer by directing prospective homebuyers interested in equivalent properties to different neighborhoods or communities or even different parts of the same development according to the buyer’s race or other characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act[/b]."

None of the statements in the listing steer buyers.  They promote a house with objectively true statements (Chesterbrook has LLIV) and typical realtor puffery (schools are "exceptional" and known for their "academic excellence") that no one tasked with enforcing the FHA would construe as steering a particular buyer based upon the buyer's race, color, religion, gender, disability, familiar status, or national origin.  To make any such argument you'd have to rely on the exact type of stereotype- i.e., AAs aren't interested in good schools - that the FHA was designed to prevent.

While the government can limit commercial speech in some circumstances, it would have a hard time defending the restrictions that you apparently have in mind, and in any event they go beyond the conduct that the FHA regulates. [/quote]

Exactly this. This law protects against a realtor steering *a particular client* a certain way based on any of the above discriminatory basis. Advertising to everyone doesn't violate this. Some realtors avoid all discussions of schools to play it overly cautious, but this realtor didn't violate any laws.[/quote]

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