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DoNotPay Housing

A bot to help the homeless and evicted fight for housing

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Joshua Browder
@jbrowder1
Hey! I am the maker of the DoNotPay "robot lawyer", which has previously helped a lot of people successfully appeal parking tickets (among other things). I'm excited to expand to help the homeless and newly evicted claim housing. I find it a disgrace that London/NYC/San Francisco housing are hubs of global wealth, yet there are a record number of people on… See more

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Joshua Browder
@jbrowder1
Hey! I am the maker of the DoNotPay "robot lawyer", which has previously helped a lot of people successfully appeal parking tickets (among other things). I'm excited to expand to help the homeless and newly evicted claim housing. I find it a disgrace that London/NYC/San Francisco housing are hubs of global wealth, yet there are a record number of people on… See more
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
From the maker who brought us DoNotPay, then turned it into a bot and got press coverage pretty much everywhere for saving parking fines for how many thousands of people?!!! Now there is help for people losing/who have lost, their homes... This has already been picked up by The Washington Post: This robot lawyer helps the newly evicted file for housing aid
Sydney Liu
@sydney_liu_sl · Co-Founder of Commaful
@jbrowder1 Ground breaking product, UX, and founder. Seriously one of the most game changing products I've seen helping solve some of the most annoying things like parking, delayed flights, and more. I'm SO excited to see him tackling problems like housing and helping the homeless. It's amazing when groundbreaking and novel products are doing good for the wo… See more
Antony Holland
@aemholland
Hey Joshua, Offering advice and assistance is a great use case for a bot - nice work. Many people in dire housing/homelessness situations are unaware of their rights, so products such as this can have a huge impact. As those in homeless situations may not have access to the internet, are you considering an SMS bot? I was recently at a hackathon organised… See more
Joyjeet Sarkar
@joy014 · CTO, mindscroll.com SaaSLearningPlatform
This is really cool Joshua. I hope its adaptable to typos and other edge cases (someone typing Si, instead of Yes).