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As housing gets more competitive, landlords and governments are outsourcing critical decisions to automated systems. But these tools often replicate old biases. Just faster and at scale.

In the US, SafeRent’s AI tool for tenant screening gave consistently lower scores to Black and Hispanic renters, and to people using housing vouchers - a legal form of income assistance. This is what we would call .

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Racist Technology in Action: AI tenant screening fails the 'fairness' test

SafeRent Solutions, an AI-powered tenant screening company, settled a lawsuit alleging that its algorithm disproportionately discriminated against Black and Hispanic renters and those relying on housing vouchers. Tenant Mary Louis filed the suit after being rejected housing through SafeRent.

racismandtechnology.center · Racism and Technology Center

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In the UK, the Department for Work and Pensions used an algorithm to detect housing benefit fraud. @TheGuardian revealed that the system wrongly flagged over 200.000 people as high risk. However, two-thirds of those claims were perfectly legitimate. That’s thousands of lives disrupted - and public resources wasted - because an algorithm got it wrong.

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DWP algorithm wrongly flags 200,000 people for possible fraud and error

Exclusive: Two-thirds of housing benefit claims marked as high risk in last three years were legitimate, figures show

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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