{"id":10118,"date":"2024-04-24T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=10118"},"modified":"2024-05-16T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:14:09","slug":"improving-mortgage-underwriting-and-pricing-outcomes-for-protected-classes-through-distribution-matching","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/resource\/improving-mortgage-underwriting-and-pricing-outcomes-for-protected-classes-through-distribution-matching\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Fairness in Mortgage Decisions: An AI Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Improving Mortgage Underwriting and Pricing Outcomes for Protected Classes Through Distribution Matching&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; <em>A Joint Study by the National Fair Housing Alliance and FairPlay AI<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"content-wrap-item post__image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unlocking-Fairness-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10144\" style=\"width:410px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unlocking-Fairness-Cover.jpg 612w, https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unlocking-Fairness-Cover-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unlocking-Fairness-Cover-300x388.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n        <div class=\"row justify-content-lg-center cms-styles\">\n            <div class=\"col-lg-8 col-xl-7\">\n\n                <!--CTA-->\n                <div class=\"card-cta\">\n                    <p>\n                        Download the Report                    <\/p>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unlocking-Fairness-Final_April-2024.pdf\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-yellow\">Click Here<\/a>\n                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Mortgage underwriting disparities for historically underserved groups remain essentially unchanged despite several decades of legislative and policy interventions to improve them. Now with artificial intelligence, including machine learning, poised to augment or take over decision making across a range of domains, including in housing and lending, many mortgage market participants and stakeholders are focused on the question of whether algorithmic systems will create, exacerbate, or ameliorate disparities for protected groups. One potentially positive development in recent years is the emergence of algorithmic fairness techniques which aim to do a better job of predicting outcomes for populations that are not well-represented in data and\/or negatively impacted by historical biases that might be contained in data used to develop models. This study evaluates whether there are algorithmic methods \u2014 using standard machine learning training techniques \u2014 that make it possible to build mortgage underwriting and pricing models that increase fairness without sacrificing accuracy and, by extension, without sacrificing profitability or introducing a bias for certain groups. <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unlocking-Fairness-Final_April-2024.pdf\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"container-fluid pt-md\">\n        <div class=\"row justify-content-lg-center cms-styles\">\n            <div class=\"col-lg-8 col-xl-7\">\n                <!--Video-->\n                <div data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#video-modal-block_3b69a7d0e953e9b77fa0a286c718423c\" class=\"card-image gradient-overlay-gray is-video border-rounded\">\n                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Unlocking-Fairness-Screenshot-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-responsive\" height=\"718\" width=\"1165\">\n                    \n                                            <h3 class=\"card-title-overlay color-white has-ellipsis\">Unlocking Fairness in Mortgage Decisions Webinar Presentation<\/h3>\n                                    <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"card-caption\">Watch the April 25, 2024 Webinar Presentation<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n        <div id=\"video-modal-block_3b69a7d0e953e9b77fa0a286c718423c\" class=\"modal fade video-modal\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\">\n            <div class=\"modal-dialog\" role=\"document\">\n                <div class=\"modal-content\">\n                    <button type=\"button\" class=\"close\" data-dismiss=\"modal\" aria-label=\"Close\">\n                        <span aria-hidden=\"true\">&times;<\/span>\n                    <\/button>\n                    <div class=\"modal-body\">\n                        <figure class=\"iframe-video\">\n                            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSgK3ZOLICo?si=5Dyx1N9bVzJSrk6M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>                        <\/figure>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n    \n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"resource-topic":[24],"resource-type":[16],"resource-category":[150],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/10118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resource-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-topic?post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-type?post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"resource-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-category?post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}