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Candidate proposes ban on 'predatory algorithms' he says drive up housing costs
Summary
Dr. Pete Meaney said he would seek to ban so‑called predatory algorithms—software he described as raising rent and mortgage costs and enriching banks and corporate landlords—as part of his campaign platform.
Dr. Pete Meaney said his second initiative would be to ban "predatory algorithms," which he described in his remarks as computer programs that increase housing costs for residents. "Secondly, I wanna ban predatory algorithms," he said, adding that "Those are computer software programs that increase your cost of housing. They increase your rent and they increase your mortgage."
Meaney argued these tools "enrich the banks and the corporate landlords." He did not supply statutory citations or implementation details in the remarks; no other speakers were recorded responding to or corroborating his assertions in the transcript.
