Nuffield Code Encounters Research Project Launch
Colleagues from the University of York will highlight the findings from their Nuffield Foundation funded cross-tenure study
The Code Encounters project (2022-2024) examined the construction, operation and impacts of algorithmic risk-profiling tools that mitigate lenders’ and landlords’ risks in providing access to housing. It was concerned with exactly how algorithms are being implemented in practice and with what implications these might have, with a focus on private rented sector digital tenant referencing products, affordability assessments and pre-tenancy checks in social housing allocation processes, and credit risk decision making in mortgage lending.
The project has produced a series of insights into how algorithms mediate access to private and social rented homes and mortgages. This was the first UK study to examine the housing access applications of these information-based and automated risk-profiling tools.
You are invited to the launch event where will highlight the findings from our Nuffield Foundation funded cross-tenure study.
Please register for the event and you will be sent the joining instructions and Zoom link. The event is online only.
The full set of reports and policy briefings are available from https://www.york.ac.uk/chp/housing-markets/code-encounters/
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