AI + Housing: How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters – Recording

December 6, 2024
Past Webinars

Automated tenant screening is already widespread, disproportionately impacting low-income and other vulnerable renters. We need to stop housing AI from deepening racial and economic inequities in the housing market. New original research from TechEquity explores how landlords use automated tenant screening tech to screen renters in California—and how these opaque algorithms leave both renters and landlords in the dark.

On Thursday, December 5th at 12-1 pm PT on Zoom we heard about how AI and tech-enabled tenant screening is changing the rental market and harming tenants—and what policy solutions we can build to address it.

Speakers included:

  • Hannah Holloway, Vice President of Housing Programs at TechEquity
  • Miguel Soto, Senior Staff Attorney and Clinical Supervisor of the Consumer Justice Clinic at East Bay Community Law Center

Agenda:

  • Webinar kicked off at 12:00 PM
  • Fireside chat began at 12:05 PM
  • Q&A from attendees from 12:40-1:00 PM