In connection with the sale, lease or other transfer of real
estate, it shall be unlawful to engender attitudes of prejudice and
discrimination or develop unfounded fears about the value of real
property or create patterns of economic and social exploitation or
create conditions which develop segregated communities.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association
conducting business in the City of Buffalo to perform any of the following
acts:
A. Inciting or leading to the incitement of neighborhood unrest, community
tension or fear of racial, religious, nationality or ethnic changes
in street, block, neighborhood or other area or otherwise resort to
or engage in any harassment, intimidation, threats or practices as
part of a process or pattern to induce or promote the sale, listing
for sale, leasing, assignment, transfer or other disposition of real
property.
B. Promote, induce, influence or attempt to promote, induce or influence
by the use of postal cards, letters, circulars, telephone, visitation
or any other means, directly or indirectly, or solicit, uninvited
by the person solicited, a property owner, occupant or tenant to list
for sale, sell, remove from lease, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose
of real estate by referring, as a part of a process or pattern of
inciting neighborhood unrest, community tension or fear of racial,
religious, nationality or ethnic change in any street, block, neighborhood
or any other area, to the race, color, religion or racial origin of
actual, possible or anticipated neighbors, tenants or other prospective
buyers of real property.
C. Cause to be made any untrue or misleading statement, advertise or
in any other manner attempt, as part of a process or pattern of inciting
neighborhood unrest, community tension or fear of racial, religious,
nationality or ethnic change in any street, block, neighborhood or
any other area, to obtain a listing of real property for sale, rental
assignment, transfer or other disposition, where such statement, advertising
or other holding out is false or misleading or where there is insufficient
basis to judge its truth or falsity to warrant making the statement,
or to make any other misrepresentations in order to obtain such listing,
sale, removal from lease, assignment, transfer or other disposition
of said real property.
D. Make, as part of a process or pattern discouraging the purchase,
rental, occupancy or other use of real property in a particular block
or neighborhood or area, any representation to any prospective purchaser
that any such block or neighborhood or area may undergo, is undergoing
or has undergone a change with respect to religious, racial, nationality
or ethnic composition of such block or neighborhood or area.