3. Homelessness on Skid Row
• coordinated entry system: prioritization and “housing first” (vs. “housing readiness” 92–93)
• VI-SPDAT: Vulnerability Index—Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool
• data used for what? (114)
• community policing (118–119)
• coordinated entry is both a system for managing housing and a system for surveillance. (121)
4. Allegheny Algorithm
• “predictive risk models”
• AFST “training” the intake workers (142)
• proxies for child abuse: community re-referral and child placement
• outcome variables, predictive variables, and validation data (143–145) How do these design flaws lead to limited accuracy?
• referral bias (153, 154)
• AFST best-case scenario (171)

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