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Today on "The Lines Between Us", we're looking at public housing in the Baltimore region.

Michael Middleton on Cherry Hill's master plan

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This week, we'll look at research that shows how the foreclosure crisis broke down along race and class lines, and we’ll hear what Northeast Baltimore’s Belair-Edison community is doing to stem the tide.

In the last segment of this "Lines Between Us" episode, Tom Hall speaks with two church leaders about the role of religious institutions in bridging divides within communities.

Kids these days, with their gardening and foraging, and their fixed-gear bicycles, and their vinyl records, and their digital photos Instagrammed until they look like they were taken in 1957.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has proposed her own plan to deal with the vacants in Baltimore.  It’s called Vacants to Value, and she launched it in November 2010.  The program focuses on selling the vacants in specific transitioning neighborhoods. 

Before the break, we heard a story from 61-year-old Pikesville resident Sheldon Caplis, a Jew who grew up in Northwest Baltimore. He was 13 when his father died in 1964; it was only then that he discovered his father had co-signed home loans for two African-American men. How did those families come to that point? Why, in 1964, did a Jewish man need to co-sign a loan for a black man to buy a house?

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Here's an essay from Maryland Morning producer Lawrence Lanahan about why he wanted WYPR to make a platform for a sustained conversation about inequality in the Baltimore region:

What it means to be poor in Maryland, one of the nation's wealthiest states: With Elizabeth Kneebone, senior research associate and associate fellow, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program; Ralph Moore, director emeritus, St.

In the first hour, a look at poverty on the national scale. Is the economy really to blame for the increase? What is happening to our safety nets? W