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Why Georgia’s Timber Growers Come Up Short In Pandemic Building Boom
Georgia Today
English - July 30, 2021 20:51 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBHealth & Fitness News Politics news politics health science media journalism georgia gpb npr atlanta Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The COVID-19 pandemic is sparking an unprecedented boom in housing sales and remodeling across the country as many Americans seek more space in which to live, work and learn at home. The historic levels of consumer demand over the last year has pushed finished lumber prices to all-time highs and Georgia’s massive timber industry that employs hundreds of thousands of people is struggling to adjust. The latest Georgia Today podcast with guest Ryan Dezember, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, explores the lumber boom's impact on the state’s critical timber industry and its growers, and what all this could mean for home prices.