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S2E3 - Matt Kahn and Mac McComas, Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities

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The Poverty Trap, Part Two

These cities hit their manufactoring peak in the 19 fifties and sixties, durable housing was built. And then real estate prices fall as demand for housing declines. Population shrinks. Baltimore's lost 33 % of its population over the last 50 years. The sort of d industrialization of the mid twentieth century kicked off this vicious cycle.

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