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Cities take the lead in battling rent-setting algorithms

Cities take the lead in battling rent-setting algorithms

Four high-cost cities — San Francisco, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Berkeley, California — have banned the use of rent algorithms. Stateline reporter Robbie Sequeira explains their motivations and what might happen to the Biden administration’s challenge to these tools.

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