Master in Food Ethics and Law

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

Contact

  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"A Racially Biased Scoring System Helps Pick Who Receives Housing in L.A."

The Markup

A few years ago, Markup reporter Colin Lecher was reading Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks and doing some digging on his own when he learned that: Los Angeles uses a scoring system to help decide who receives subsidized housing; Existing research on a few other cities using the same scoring system found racially biased results; Los Angeles had yet to release any scoring data. So, no scoring data has been released? On a potentially racially biased system? Challenge accepted. Colin wanted that data.