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Profit and profiteering in the housing market

Profit and profiteering in the housing market

Update: 2023-12-12
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When Maxwell Frost was elected to Congress, he struggled to find housing in DC. Today he advocates for stronger consumer protections and authors legislation to level the playing field between renters and landlords. Frost joins Data Nation along with Catherine D’Ignazio, an Urban Science and Planning professor at MIT, to talk about the challenges renters and home buyers face, how algorithmic technology perpetuates discrimination, and the importance of understanding where data comes from and who benefits from usi

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Profit and profiteering in the housing market

Profit and profiteering in the housing market

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