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| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | AppFolio Screening | An AppFolio tenant-screening service embedded in property-management software for landlords. AppFolio Screening scores low because rental applicants are evaluated through credit and tenant-screening reports inside a landlord-facing workflow, with housing access depending on data they may need to dispute after denial. | property-management tenant-screening software | Medium confidence (AI) | AppFolio | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -4 | -2 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | AvalonBay Communities | A public apartment REIT developing, owning, and operating apartment communities in high-barrier U.S. markets. AvalonBay has real housing product utility, but investor ownership, high-income market focus, and tenant dependence keep the score low. | public apartment REIT | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Camden Property Trust | A public apartment REIT owning, developing, and operating multifamily rental communities. Camden provides ordinary rental housing, but shareholder ownership, rent extraction, and tenant dependence make it a weak institutional actor despite a narrower footprint than the largest landlords. | public apartment REIT | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Champlain Housing Trust | A community land trust and affordable-housing nonprofit in northwestern Vermont providing shared-equity homes, rentals, and housing stewardship. Champlain Housing Trust scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | community land trust and affordable-housing nonprofit | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Equity Residential | A public apartment REIT owning and operating rental housing in major U.S. markets. Equity Residential provides professionally managed apartments, but shareholder rent extraction, high-cost-market focus, and tenant dependence keep it low. | public apartment REIT | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Greystar | A private real-estate company that owns, develops, and manages apartments, student housing, and rental communities. Greystar scores low because rent-setting, property-management power, founder-led private governance, and housing dependence give residents little bargaining power. | private apartment owner, developer, and property manager | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -4 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -2 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Invitation Homes | A public single-family rental company owning and operating homes for lease. Invitation Homes scores low because shareholder rental housing ownership, fee and maintenance disputes, market concentration, and constrained tenant exit place essential shelter under investor rule. | public single-family rental landlord | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Mid-America Apartment Communities | A public apartment REIT operating rental communities across Sun Belt and other U.S. markets. MAA provides housing at scale, but investor ownership, rent extraction, and weak tenant control keep it in the same low-scoring landlord cluster. | public apartment REIT | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | ROC USA | A nonprofit network helping manufactured-home communities become resident-owned cooperatives. ROC USA scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | nonprofit resident-owned housing network | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Yardi ScreeningWorks Pro | A Yardi tenant-screening and fraud-detection product used by landlords and property managers to review credit, rental, eviction, identity, income, and criminal-record data. ScreeningWorks Pro scores very low because renters can be excluded from housing by opaque landlord-facing analytics and biometric/data workflows. | tenant-screening and fraud-detection software | Medium confidence (AI) | Yardi Systems | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -5 | -2 |