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 Addendum 14

Artificial Intelligence Making Housing Crisis Worse

* landlords using private equity-backed AI to screen tenants, heightening errors & discrimination
* selects tenants; sets rents; ...

https://persagen.com >> search:
"affordable housing" AND "private equity"
"affordable housing"
realpage

#AlgorithmicPricing #optimization #EconomicInequality #BlackStone #Fundrise #JPMorganChase #RealPage #PrivateEquity #corporations #DefundCorporations #CorporateGreed #inflation #homelessness 
 Addendum 15

Eviction Crisis Is About to Hit Los Angeles
Tenant rights groups have been sounding the alarm about an impending post-pandemic eviction crisis. In Los Angeles, that day has come — putting hundreds of thousands of tenants at risk of losing their housing and compelling some to fight back
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/eviction-crisis-los-angeles-california-rent-debt-housing

#PrivateEquity #corporations #DefundCorporations #CorporateGreed #inflation #homelessness 
 Addendum 16

Vancouver Tenants Union
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110653704660078445
https://www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca

#Vancouver #AffordableHousing #VancouverTenantsUnion 
 @c17393bb 
Not sure if you knew about this but there’s a great read that I think you should look into if you’re interested. AI-powered systems for algorithmic rent increase, that sounds like something she would’ve covered in #automatinginequality
https://virginia-eubanks.com/automating-inequality/
Also Zuboff’s website just for fun
https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/
#surveillancecapitalism 
 @d7cc8cb2   Awesome!  Thank you for the share, link, hashtag!  😀  👍️ Victoria  🙏