{"id":6334,"date":"2023-02-28T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:10:06","slug":"national-fair-housing-alliance-tech-equity-initiative-and-fairplay-partner-to-improve-mortgage-lending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/national-fair-housing-alliance-tech-equity-initiative-and-fairplay-partner-to-improve-mortgage-lending\/","title":{"rendered":"National Fair Housing Alliance Tech Equity Initiative and\u00a0FairPlay partner to improve mortgage lending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"content-wrap-item post__columns wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"content-wrap-item post__image wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3735\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NFHA-logo-Final.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1471\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"content-wrap-item post__image wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fairplay.ai\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"165\" height=\"46\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fairplay-ai-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6335\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>NFHA and FairPlay partner to test AI technologies aimed at improving mortgage lending outcomes for historically underserved groups&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. and LOS ANGELES \u2014 Feb. 28th, 2023 \u2014 <\/strong>The National Fair Housing Alliance, America\u2019s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and creating healthy, vibrant communities, and <a href=\"https:\/\/fairplay.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FairPlay<\/a>, the world\u2019s first Fairness-as-a-Service\u2122 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\u2019s Tech Equity Initiative for the second consecutive year. NFHA\u2019s 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Together&nbsp; 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 (<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/issue\/purpose-process-and-monitoring-framework-ppm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purpose, Process and Monitoring<\/a>) framework to evaluate the algorithms produced as part of this partnership for inclusion in its algorithmic fairness toolkit.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">\u201cAs we celebrate the 55<sup>th<\/sup> year of the Fair Housing Act, we\u2019re 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,\u201d said <strong>NFHA\u2019s Chief Tech Equity Officer, Dr. Michael Akinwumi. <\/strong>\u201cSince being launched in 2021, NFHA\u2019s Tech Equity team has worked with partners like FairPlay to create more fairness for underserved groups, including people of color and women.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">&#8220;NFHA has been working to increase the fairness of algorithmic decisioning systems since the 1990s,\u201d said <strong>FairPlay CEO Kareem Saleh. <\/strong>\u201cWe 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 good for progress.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">The NFHA-FairPlay AI fairness work will take place throughout 2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">For more information about NFHA, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfairhousing.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NationalFairHousing.org<\/a>. For more information about FairPlay, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/fairplay.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FairPlay.ai<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph has-text-align-center\">###&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><em><strong>The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA)<\/strong> is the country\u2019s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and ensuring equal opportunities for all people. Through its homeownership, credit access, tech equity, education, member services, public policy, community development, and enforcement initiatives, NFHA works to dismantle longstanding barriers to equity and build diverse, inclusive, well-resourced communities.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><em><strong>FairPlay AI<\/strong> is the world\u2019s first Fairness-as-a-Service\u2122 company. FairPlay technologies help users of AI systems detect and combat algorithmic bias in ways that drive growth and enhance positive outcomes&nbsp; \u2014 without increasing risk. Companies, nonprofits and regulators use FairPlay\u2019s APIs to provide \u201cdouble checks\u201d of algorithmic decisions using models tuned to be more sensitive to historically disadvantaged groups. By correcting for blind spots in models and data, FairPlay facilitates decisions that are more profitable and more fair. For more information about FairPlay and its products, visit FairPlay.ai.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\"><strong>Media Contacts:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Hela Sheth&nbsp;<br>678-938-1318&nbsp;<br><a href=\"mailto:hela@katalystcomms.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hela@katalystcomms.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"content-wrap-item post__paragraph\">Izzy Woodruff&nbsp;<br><a href=\"mailto:Iwoodruff@nationalfairhousing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iwoodruff@nationalfairhousing.org<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFHA and FairPlay partner to test AI technologies aimed at improving mortgage lending outcomes for historically underserved groups&nbsp; WASHINGTON, D.C. and LOS ANGELES \u2014 Feb. 28th, 2023 \u2014 The National Fair Housing Alliance, America\u2019s only national civil rights organization dedicated solely to eliminating all forms of housing and lending discrimination and creating healthy, vibrant communities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-media","category-press-releases","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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