English Dictionary

blockbusting

名詞

アメリカ英語 不可算名詞

(US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

日本語の意味

特定の地域で、近隣環境が悪化する（特に住民の人種構成の変化を匂わせる）という印象を与えることにより、住民に自らの不動産を手放させるように仕向ける、不動産取引における技法

The committee investigated allegations of blockbusting after residents reported real estate agents spreading rumors to drive down property values.

委員会は、住民から不動産業者が噂を流して不動産価値を下げるという報告を受け、近隣が悪化している、特に人種構成が変わっていると示唆して住宅所有者に売却を促すという手法についての疑惑を調査した。

意味（1）

(US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.

Sonny W. Walker, another of the three black salesmen employed along with three whites by Concord Realty, 3524 Church Avenue, picked up the thread of Mr. Harris's bitter disclaimer that it took deliberate blockbusting—sometimes called panic redlining—to make whites move out of East Flatbush.