Peter Lohmann and a legal expert discuss a housing application screening that uses only anonymized numbers: credit score, income, criminal and eviction history. No names, photos, or IDs are seen, making the approval legally defensible and free from subjective bias.
They don't even know their name. They're just looking at a spreadsheet of this is the credit score, this is the income, this is the criminal history, this is eviction history. Yes or no. I love that. Never met them. They don't know what they look like. They don't know anything about them.
And they don't, they never see the ID. That was the other thing my client did. Never see the ID. Yeah. That was the other thing my client did where we got out of them is in addition to having just the numbers, we were able to show that the driver's license isn't even part of it. So to your point, yeah, no name, no picture. So it truly is a blind approval. And that, that is very easy for a lawyer like me to defend in a fair housing situation. That's— it really is.
