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They do this by swaying certain groups to that area, mainly one that is not the majority, and eventually within ten years the area has changed so much. In the meantime, they cash in big time as the neighborhood old timers seek to sell their homes to get away from the change and into a neighborhood that looks more like home.

This is called blockbusting. Do you have any articles or resources that discuss how businesses actively do this? This is an important point and sounds halfway plausible -- almost enough to get out the tinfoil hats -- have you anything to corroborate your observation? PBS documentaries, that kind of thing? The local PBS affiliate, KUHT, once did a documentary about 1960's blockbusting, which was undertaken by an unethical real-estate firm (very few individuals involved, really), and their lowlife tactics. But do you have any further information or references about the practice being imitated more widely by business?

Well, I do know that large neighborhood developers, etc., who have homesites all around a particular metropolitan area, often steer particular groups to particular neighborhoods. For example, if the developer is steering whites to a particular neighborhoods, contacts, realtors, etc. will tell a white family about this neighborhood, meet with them at that neighborhood, and provide brochures, containing mostly white people, about that neighborhood.

Similarily, if the realators are seeking black people, they will do the same thing, with the exception that those brochures contain black people. Of course, there's always a token white, just like there's a token black for the white neighborhood brochures.

Furthermore, some developers, it is speculated, seek neighborhood change by building a particular neighborhood or houses within a particular community, and then aggressively, or wholeheartedly marketing the neighborhood to a group other than the majority.

Some could say that they're only catering to what the future holds for these particular communities. However, it is obvious that neighborhood change, etc. is not only directly effected by wanting to live in a neighborhood that looks more like "home", but by aggressive realators who do their best to capitalize as much as they can.