National Fair Housing Alliance Tech Equity Initiative and FairPlay partner to improve Mortgage Lending

By PR Newswire On Mar 13, 2023

NFHA and FairPlay partner to test AI technologies aimed at improving mortgage lending outcomes for historically underserved groups

The National Fair Housing Alliance, America’s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and creating healthy, vibrant communities, and FairPlay, the world’s first Fairness-as-a-Service company, are announcing a partnership to test artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies designed to significantly improve mortgage lending outcomes for historically underserved homebuyers. Through the partnership, FairPlay will provide fairness methodologies to support NFHA’s Tech Equity Initiative for the second consecutive year. NFHA’s Tech Equity Initiative is a multi-pronged effort designed to eliminate bias and discrimination in algorithmic systems including statistical models, machine learning systems and AI systems.

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Together NFHA and FairPlay will test AI fairness technologies designed to more accurately risk-rank consumers from historically underserved groups. NFHA will disseminate the findings of this AI fairness initiative at conferences and through publications over the course of 2023. NFHA will also use its state-of-the-art PPM (Purpose, Process and Monitoring) framework to evaluate the algorithms produced as part of this partnership for inclusion in its algorithmic fairness toolkit.

“As we celebrate the 55th year of the Fair Housing Act, we’re excited to partner with FairPlay for a second year to leverage AI fairness techniques in ways that will create better outcomes for people of color in the mortgage market,” said NFHA’s Chief Equity Officer, Dr. Michael Akinwumi. “Since being launched in 2021, NFHA’s Tech Equity team has worked with partners like FairPlay to create more fairness for underserved groups, including people of color and women.”

“NFHA has been working to increase the fairness of algorithmic decisioning systems since the 1990s,” said FairPlay CEO Kareem Saleh. “We are delighted to continue our partnership with NHFA to leverage our Fairness-as-a-Service technologies in ways that are good for people, good for profits and for progress.”

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