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Tenant Rights Helper

Ask a housing question and get local rules with sources and a letter template.

Intermediate14h1–2 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Tenant Rights Helper for renters in ~14h with 1–2 people. Stack: Embeddings + LLM + Chroma.

Why it wins: Legal empowerment with citations.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Renters do not know their rights and landlords exploit that.
02 · Solution
Retrieval over local tenancy laws and guides answers questions with citations and generates letters for common issues like deposits and repairs.
03 · Build
  1. 1Collect laws
  2. 2Embed
  3. 3Answer with citations
  4. 4Generate letters
04 · Demo
Ask about a withheld deposit and generate a letter.

MVP checklist

  • Cited answers
  • Letter templates
  • Local rules
  • Help contacts

Tech stack

TechRole
EmbeddingsSemantic similarity
LLMLanguage model
ChromaEmbedding store

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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