Algorithms Allegedly Penalized Black Renters. The US Government Is Watching

Two years ago, Mary Louis submitted an application to rent an apartment at Granada Highlands in Malden, Massachusetts. She liked that the unit had two full bathrooms and that there was a pool on the premises. But the landlord denied her the apartment, allegedly due to a score assigned to her by a tenant-screening algorithm made by SafeRent.

Louis responded with references to prove 16 years of punctual rent payments, to no avail. Instead she took a different apartment that cost $200 more a month in an area with a higher crime rate. But a class-action filed by Louis and others last May

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