• There is a troubling trend toward abrogating the use of credit scores, criminal history and housing history to measure risk from the misbegotten sense that doing so will result in a better outcome for people who have traditionally fared poorly in the housing market, whether looking for a mortgage or a lease.
• Those efforts will shift risk measurement to risk reduction in the form of higher prices.
• The answer is to help people improve their risk profiles with credit repair, broader measures and real help for people with criminal backgrounds.

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