Lionel Foster

Metro Baltimore

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Proptech still has fundamental problems for entrepreneurs to solve – TechCrunch

Jun 27, 2022 |

By Jake Fingert, Lionel Foster

| TechCrunch

Jake Fingert is a managing partner at Camber Creek, a strategic venture capital firm investing in real estate technology companies. Over the last decade, one tech sector that affects everyone’s quality of life — from where we live to what we put in our homes — has come a long way. Proptech has made our lives easier with innovations like smart homes, AirBnB, and the ability to shop for and secure a mortgage from our phones. But major gaps, and opportunities, remain.

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Why Proptech Needs to Be More Inclusive

Oct 13, 2021 |

By Lionel Foster

| Commercial Observer

It’s the kind of statistic you can’t unread. In Baltimore, as recently as 2017, more than 4 percent of children under the age of 6 had worryingly high levels of lead in their blood, amounts greater than the 5 micrograms per deciliter the Centers for Disease Control uses as its reference point.

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"The Black Butterfly"

Feb 05, 2019 |

By Brett Theodos, Eric Hangen, Brady Meixell, Andrew Mangum, Christina Baird, Daniel Wood , Lionel Foster, Elizabeth Forney, David Hinson

| Urban Institute

Looking at per household trends among big cities in investment in multifamily, commercial, and industrial properties, Baltimore is in the middle of the pack. It is ahead of some larger cities, like Los Angeles and San Antonio, but stands at just 36 percent of DC’s per capita investment levels. Investment across Baltimore is uneven—fragmented by race, income, and geography.

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A $38 million racial disparity and a Florida partnership’s effort to close it

Dec 10, 2018 |

By Lionel Foster

| Urban Institute

Business ownership is a significant source of wealth and a potential avenue for narrowing the racial wealth divide, but entrepreneurship has its own racial disparities. In the United States, members of racial minority groups make up 24.4 percent of the population but just 14.1 percent of business owners. Anchor institutions, large entities like universities and hospitals whose operations root them in specific places, can support the development of minority small businesses.

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Baltimore after the unrest: A conversation with Kathryn Edin

Mar 10, 2017 |

By Lionel Foster, Kathryn Edin

| Urban Institute

Kathryn Edin is a member of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, Bloomberg distinguished professor of sociology and public health at the Johns Hopkins University, and director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative. She combines qualitative and quantitative research methods in rich, detailed investigations of poverty in America’s cities.

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The Case For Reconcilitation

Nov 04, 2015 |

By Lionel Foster

| urbanitebaltimore.com

Last spring, rioting and protests over the death of Freddie Gray put Baltimore in headlines around the world and at the epicenter of a national struggle against police violence. Anger on the streets was followed by a heated rhetorical battle over what to call what was happening and whom to blame. For Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the violence was the work of “thugs,” a description she later retracted.

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If voters approve hikes in November, 29 states will have minimum wages above the federal rate

Oct 22, 2014 |

By Ian Hill, Richard Johnson, Lionel Foster, Gina Adams, Matthew Johnson, Megan Gallagher, Ellen Seidman, Howard Gleckman, Julie Samuels, Donald Marron, Josh Mitchell

| blog.metrotrends.org

Discussions about income inequality have put raising the minimum wage on the political agenda. But because opposition in Congress blocked an increase to the national rate of $7.25, the debate has moved to the states. This November, minimum wage increases are on the ballot in five states: Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

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Ten reasons to care about your local DA race

Oct 02, 2014 |

By Ian Hill, Richard Johnson, Lionel Foster, Gina Adams, Matthew Johnson, Megan Gallagher, Ellen Seidman, Howard Gleckman, Julie Samuels, Donald Marron, Josh Mitchell

| blog.metrotrends.org

The Brennan Center for Justice’s latest publication, “Federal Prosecution for the 21st Century,” focuses on success measures for federal prosecutors and suggests ways for the 94 US Attorneys’ Offices to reorient themselves toward the “twin goals of reducing crime and reducing mass incarceration.” The report, along with the news that Attorney General Eric Holder is stepping down, is sparking a much-needed conversation about what will be required from federal prosecutors to further reduce the...

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