Sheenita Robinson
Building the renter-centered housing transparency ecosystem that should have existed from the start.
Sheenita Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Tenant Transparency, a housing technology company built around one simple belief: renters deserve to know before they lease.
A Chicago native, she brings together lived experience, organizational leadership, operations, education, and community development to tackle one of the rental housing market's most overlooked problems: the information imbalance between landlords and renters. They get your full biography. You get their carefully curated brochure.
Over the course of approximately 17 moves throughout Chicago, Sheenita experienced firsthand how little information renters can have before making one of the most consequential decisions for their families.
- Chicago native who has moved 17+ times, experiencing the rental market firsthand
- Founded Report My Landlord on Nextdoor, which grew to 1,000+ members before becoming Tenant Transparency
- MBA in Human Resource Management from Roosevelt University
- Bachelor's degree in Communication and Education from Northeastern Illinois University (Cum Laude, McNair Scholar)
- Pursuing Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Leadership at Roosevelt University, with focus on housing equity and community development
Throughout her moves, Sheenita and her family encountered mold, rodents, burst pipes, utility and water-service problems, unresponsive landlords, unexpected costs, and other challenges that made one thing increasingly clear: renters were being asked to disclose almost everything about themselves while having few meaningful ways to evaluate the home, landlord, or rental experience on the other side of the transaction.
This wasn't a gap in the market. It was a fundamental information imbalance that affected housing stability, employment, education access, and family security. Sheenita's insight didn't come from market research. It came from lived experience.
"Housing is a human right, and when the housing system lacks transparency and accountability, the people with the least power are often the ones who bear the greatest burden. Tenant Transparency was created to give renters access to information, a voice, and greater power to make informed housing decisions."
Sheenita Robinson
Sheenita started with a simple Nextdoor group: Report My Landlord. It was a place for renters to share experiences and hold landlords accountable. It struck a nerve. The group grew to more than 1,000 members, all looking for the same thing: a way to know what they were walking into before they signed a lease.
The more the community grew, the clearer the gap became. Renters didn't just need somewhere to report problems after they happened. They needed the information beforehand, before a bad landlord, a hidden fee, or an unsafe unit became their problem to deal with.
That realization became Tenant Transparency: a broader solution built on the same foundation of renters helping renters, expanded into property intelligence, renter education, transparency tools, and resources that meet people before the lease is signed, not after.
Community Leadership
Nonprofit and public sector operations, executive administration, and organizational development. Sheenita has built and scaled community programs, coordinated across stakeholders, and transformed systems thinking into real institutional change.
Education & Training
Experience designing curriculum, mentoring, and creating pathways for others. A McNair Scholar who understands the barriers to education access and believes in building systems that open doors.
Project Management
Track record of managing complex initiatives across teams, timelines, and budgets. From initial concept through scaled implementation.
Community Engagement
Deep listening to what communities actually need, then building solutions that reflect that feedback. Relationships are the foundation.
Housing is not simply a transaction. It affects education, employment, transportation, financial security, family stability, and access to opportunity.
Through Tenant Transparency, she is building toward a renter-centered housing information ecosystem designed to make transparency an expected standard in the rental housing market. One where the next renter doesn't have to find out the hard way.
Seventeen moves revealed the problem.
Building Tenant Transparency is her answer.
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