WohnFair: α-Fair, Cryptographically Auditable Housing Allocation

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Auteurs principaux: Siddiqui, Aqib, Nadeem, Akhtar
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author Siddiqui, Aqib
Nadeem, Akhtar
author_facet Siddiqui, Aqib
Nadeem, Akhtar
contents <p>Housing allocation is a canonical indivisible resource allocation problem with urgent relevance in Germany’s housing crisis. Existing mechanisms  lotteries, point systems, first-come-first-served  lack provable fairness guarantees, are vulnerable to manipulation, and fail to incorporate predictive risk models.</p> <p>This preprint introduces WohnFair, the first framework to unify:<br><br>1. FairRent Algorithm — extension of α-fair scheduling to indivisible housing allocation, with proofs of non-starvation, proportional fairness, and O(n log m) scalability.<br>2. ZK-Lease Protocol — a Halo2/PLONK-based zero-knowledge eligibility system providing Sybil resistance and O(1) verification.<br>3. FairSurvival-GAN — a fairness-constrained survival analysis model that improves concordance index from 0.70→0.85 and reduces group fairness gaps to <5%.</p> <p>Experiments on Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg housing datasets show:<br>- Waitlist clearance time ↓41%<br>- Fraudulent applications ↓93%<br>- Group fairness gap ↓22%</p> <p>Status: Preprint on Zenodo. All code, reproducibility pipelines, and Dockerized implementations available at: [https://github.com/Aqib121201/WohnFair-cryptographically-auditable-housing-allocation-system].</p>
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spellingShingle WohnFair: α-Fair, Cryptographically Auditable Housing Allocation
Siddiqui, Aqib
Nadeem, Akhtar
Fair allocation
Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
Machine Learning
Cryptography
Zero-knowledge proofs
Algorithmic fairness
Resource scheduling
Housing allocation
Reproducibility
<p>Housing allocation is a canonical indivisible resource allocation problem with urgent relevance in Germany’s housing crisis. Existing mechanisms  lotteries, point systems, first-come-first-served  lack provable fairness guarantees, are vulnerable to manipulation, and fail to incorporate predictive risk models.</p> <p>This preprint introduces WohnFair, the first framework to unify:<br><br>1. FairRent Algorithm — extension of α-fair scheduling to indivisible housing allocation, with proofs of non-starvation, proportional fairness, and O(n log m) scalability.<br>2. ZK-Lease Protocol — a Halo2/PLONK-based zero-knowledge eligibility system providing Sybil resistance and O(1) verification.<br>3. FairSurvival-GAN — a fairness-constrained survival analysis model that improves concordance index from 0.70→0.85 and reduces group fairness gaps to <5%.</p> <p>Experiments on Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg housing datasets show:<br>- Waitlist clearance time ↓41%<br>- Fraudulent applications ↓93%<br>- Group fairness gap ↓22%</p> <p>Status: Preprint on Zenodo. All code, reproducibility pipelines, and Dockerized implementations available at: [https://github.com/Aqib121201/WohnFair-cryptographically-auditable-housing-allocation-system].</p>
title WohnFair: α-Fair, Cryptographically Auditable Housing Allocation
topic Fair allocation
Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
Machine Learning
Cryptography
Zero-knowledge proofs
Algorithmic fairness
Resource scheduling
Housing allocation
Reproducibility
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16975655