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Lawsuit alleges racial discrimination in tenant screening tool

Lawsuit alleges racial discrimination in tenant screening tool

By CommonWealth Staff criminal justice, Housing, Race 0 Comments Jan 12, 2023

Two Black women from Massachusetts are at the center of what could become a landmark federal case about whether software that screens potential tenants is illegally biased against Black and Hispanic applicants. Rachael Rollins, the US attorney for Massachusetts, weighed in on the case, Louis vs. SafeRent Solutions, in a court brief this week, arguing(...)

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