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AffordableHousing.com partners with research lab Learning Collider to ensure our technology is fair, equitable, and backed by research. This collaboration provides access to top talent, including innovators, economists, and data scientists.  

Learning Collider’s mission is to help technology platforms like ours build, evaluate, and scale fair technology to maximize social impact and business objectives. To date, AffordableHousing.com and Learning Collider have collaborated on multiple innovations and projects:

• Developed a Section 8 voucher waitlist simulator to reduce bias and optimize impact (partner: MassNAHRO).

• Tested and scaled a screening algorithm and application decision system that reduce discrimination in application variables such as conviction/arrest background, race, ethnicity, and age.

• Improved the rent reasonableness process through increased transparency and by preventing manipulation.

• Built a housing dashboard to view rental market trends at federal, state, and local levels with AffordableHousing.com’s unique dataset.

• Analyzed real-time rental data for accessible units in Chicago to inform Fair Market Rates (additional partner: Chicago Housing Authority).

• Researched the real cost of administrative fees and the impact of fee transparency in rental listings.

• Added school quality information to rental listings to support family decision-making when searching for affordable units (partner: GreatSchools.org).

• Presented rental market trends to policymakers and advisors from the White House & HUD (view and download slides here)

Stay tuned for more insights!

For partnership inquiries, contact Brooke Berman, VP of Housing: brooke@learningcollider.org

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