Clarence Page: Trump turns panic peddler to nervous NIMBY suburbs
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Aug 09, 2020
2 minutes
Having made his name in real estate, it is oddly appropriate that President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts have steered him into a new version of panic peddling.
“Panic peddling” or “blockbusting” describes the now-illegal practice of persuading property owners to sell cheaply out of fear that people of another race, ethnicity or income group are going to move in and bring down property values. Then the unscrupulous peddler
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