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A rigged version of Monopoly

2024/7/1
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Lumber prices have fluctuated significantly due to the pandemic, affecting home construction and renovation costs. Despite recent drops, other materials remain expensive, influencing the trend towards smaller homes.

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Lawrence Brown created “Urban Cipher,” a Monopoly-like game, to illustrate the consequences of neighborhood redlining. We’ll join Baltimore city educators at a professional development session led by Brown and hear how redlining continues to affect families today. Also in this episode: Lumber prices fall while housing remains expensive, Toys R Us dips its toe into AI-generated advertising and a landscape designer tells us about his job before the arrival of drafting software.