Housing
Which describes the legally enforceable terms that govern the use of real estate?
A. Residential security restrictions
B. Deed restrictions
C. Redlined Maps
Government-sponsored deeds
B. Deed Restrictions
-Deed restrictions are legally enforceable terms that govern the use of real estate. Deed
restrictions that discriminate based on any of the seven prohibited bases for
discrimination are illegal and unenforceable.
Which is the practice of refusing to make residential loans or imposing more onerous
terms on any loans made because of the predominant race, color, national origin,
religion, sex, disability, of familial status of the area's residents?
A. Securitizing
B. Blockbusting
C. Predatory lending
D Redlining
D. Redlining
-Redlining is the practice of refusing to make residential loans or imposing more
onerous terms on any loan made because of the predominant race, color, national
origin, religion, sex, disability, or familial status of the area's residents.
Following the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , Congress passed what
monumental piece of legislation, which prohibits discrimination in housing sales, rentals,
and financing based on race, color, national origin, religion, (and as later amended) sex,
disability, and familial status?
Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Fair Housing Act, as amended, protects how many characteristics?
7 Characteristics; race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability and familial status
A property manager of an apartment complex that receives federal financial assistance
installs a ramp so that a tenant in a wheelchair can easily access her first-floor
apartment.
What type of change is this an example of?
A. Reasonable accommodation
B. Accessibility modification
C. Reasonable modification
D. Accessibility accommodation.
C. Reasonable Modification
A housing provider has a policy of requiring tenants to come to the rental office to pay
their rent. A tenant with a mental disability, who is afraid to leave her unit, is allowed to
mail her rent payment.
What type of change is this an example of?
A. Reasonable accommodation
B. Accessibility modification