Masha Hupalo
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is a researcher and architect who writes and teaches in Los Angeles. Her current work focuses on the way policy and high-frequency data inform planning and design, the legal construct of territory and borders, and new forms of governance and ownership. 

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The Politics of Zestimate: Merging Technology and Real Estate Industries
    The article centers the role of Zillow, an American real estate platform, and its home valuation tool, Zestimate, in the commodification of housing in the last decades. The massive amounts of data collected since 2006 have enabled Zillow to train its predictive algorithms that determine Zestimates and enter the real estate market as a house-flipper. In this update, I aim to illustrate the radical changes brought by the digitization of the housing marketplace.
  • Type:  Publication
  • Location: Radical Housing Journal, Vol 3(2): 215-219
  • Year: 2021
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