Recently, UMBC’s Community Leadership graduate program director Sally Scott, co-authored a report, Overcoming Barriers to Homeownership in Baltimore City. The report analyzed if additional first-time homebuyer incentives and more flexibly underwritten loans could reverse declining rates of homeownership in Baltimore.

In today’s Industry Roundup, we take a closer look at this report. We also take a look at genetic ancestry, scaling up quantum computers, and a newly discovered South Pole Wall in deep space.