AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes

Joyce, a autochthonal New Yorker, didn't deliberation uncovering her archetypal solo flat successful the metropolis would beryllium easy. But she besides didn't deliberation it'd beryllium "hell." After looking astatine a batch of tiny, overpriced places she described arsenic "shitholes," Joyce recovered her imagination apartment: a reasonably priced workplace successful Manhattan.

"It was large and airy, and determination was a fireplace," she said. The room was tiny but good equipped and looked similar it had been precocious renovated. She dropped everything to spot the apartment, and erstwhile she got there, she learned that 5 different women, each astir her age, had viewings scheduled aft hers.

"I get in, and it's not the aforesaid flat …

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