About PSV

In 2025, we spun PSV out of the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP), one of Colorado’s largest non-profit service providers and law firms that has a mission to keep people housed and house people experiencing homelessness. Since 2021, CEDP has served more than 60,000 people as Colorado’s financial emergency room, 200,000+ as Colorado’s housing crisis call center, and 5,000 with legal assistance.

PSV’s initial products advance CEDP’s mission, seeking to keep people in their homes, preventing formal and informal evictions. In Colorado, more than 60,000 households (150,000 people) face eviction annually. Nationally, the number is 3.6 million (9 million people). According to Matthew Desmond, twice as many face informal eviction (18 million).

The market and policy conditions create even greater needs for call center navigation and “deployable” legal information for renters in crisis. Right now, answers are hard to come by, with social service agencies stretched and online tools failing to meet the need. People cannot find actionable direction for a court hearing. Existing AI and non-AI-based solutions are typically written in legalese, ineffectively seeking to “educate” rather than guide people to a solution. With less than 10% of people who face a housing emergency having access to legal aid, we identified a need to specifically develop technologies and technology-enabled services to help people learn how to respond to a housing crisis and confidently assert their rights in real time. Our three initial products are designed to meet those needs.