From mortgage credit scores to smart home apps, advances in data and technology are dramatically reshaping how housing is bought and sold by homeowners and investors, operated by landlords, and inhabited by all of us. New technologies could address problems like energy inefficiency, unaffordability, and undersupply of housing. But without an explicit focus on social justice, such advances may reinforce existing housing market inequalities through facilitating discrimination and exclusion, enabling surveillance of tenants, and contributing to rent increases and displacement. This interactive policy-practice-academia workshop asks;

How will advances in housing tech change the housing system over the next decade?

And how can we ensure that housing tech challenges, rather than exacerbates existing housing inequalities?

AGENDA

1430-1435: Introduction by CaCHE

1435 - 1455: Thinking about ‘housing’ and ‘tech’ (Desiree Fields, University of California, Berkeley)

This session will start with a discussion of how participants imagine tech will change the housing system in 2030, followed by an overview of concepts we can use to think through housing and tech.

1455 –1545: Presentations and discussion

Thomas Wainwright, Royal Holloway University: Title TBC

Joe Shaw, University of Oxford: Title TBC

Desiree Fields, University of California, Berkeley: Platform real estate in Berlin and San Francisco

Chair: James Tickell, Campbell Tickell

15:45 – 15:55: Comfort break

15:55 – 16:45: Presentations and discussion

Alastair Parvin, Open Systems Lab: Title TBC

Alison Wallace, University of York: Automated Access? Algorithmic risk-profiling tools as housing market intermediaries '

Ben Yarrow, Marks out of Tenancy: Faceless nudges

Chair: Desiree Fields, University of California, Berkeley

16:45 – 16:55: Discussion: Principles and priorities for justice in housing tech (Desiree Fields, University of California, Berkeley)

The group will reflect on principles and priorities to guide the relationship between housing and technology to centre justice in “a fully automated housing system by 2030’

16:55 – 17:00: Close

Workshop: Towards a fully automated housing system in 2030?