DHA, Housing Solutions for North Texas Has Approved More Than 1,000 Dallas Families for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program apnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from apnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Artificial intelligence is used in a host of algorithms in medicine, banking and other major industries. But as it has proliferated, studies have shown that AI can be biased against people of color.
A new bill would require AI developers to evaluate privacy risks, assess the potential for discriminatory decisions and the state’s Department of Technology would need to approve the software before its use in the public sector.
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Programmers, Lawmakers Want AI to Eliminate Bias, Not Promote It
Community activist Ashton P. Woods checks his phone in a Houston neighborhood. A Dallas-area entrepreneur has developed a housing assistance app that he hopes will use artificial intelligence to connect renters and help them avoid discriminatory practices. Artificial intelligence can provide racially biased results, but some states are considering legislation to address the problem.
David J. Phillip
The Associated Press
DALLAS When software engineer Bejoy Narayana was developing Bob.ai, an application to help automate Dallas-Fort Worth’s Section 8 voucher program, he stopped and asked himself, ‘‘Could this system be used to help some people more than others?”
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DHA Completes Allocation of $4 Million in 2020 CARES Act Rent Assistance Supporting More Than 1,200 Families
January 7, 2021 GMT
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Housing Solutions for North Texas (DHA) has completed allocating CARES Act Rent Relief funds on behalf of the City of Dallas. Since August, DHA received 4,800 completed applications, reviewed the applications for eligibility, ran multiple lotteries, and issued $4 million in temporary rental assistance for 1,207 families. The approach designed by DHA enabled rental assistance to reach the most vulnerable residents while accounting for equitable geographical distribution.
The City of Dallas COVID-19 Rent Relief program, funded by the CARES Act, is a federally funded initiative designed to help low income households that have been adversely impacted by COVID-19 through the loss of their employment income or who sustained a reduction in income and are delinq