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Hallie Miller

Hallie

Hallie Miller covers housing in the Baltimore region and beyond for The Baltimore Banner. She previously reported on city and regional services for The Banner’s Better Baltimore series. Hallie is a Baltimore native who spent four years at The Baltimore Sun, where she helped lead the paper's medical coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. She is eager to hear your ideas.

The latest from Hallie Miller

Timonium lawyer shot by son-in-law helped daughter seek protection order, police say
Charging documents say that Mark Thomas Ryan was angry after his wife obtained a temporary protective order against him.
Sawmill Court in Phoenix, where a domestic dispute occurred Saturday afternoon.
Baltimore County Police identify 18-year-old killed in Cockeysville crash
Ryan Duvall, an 18-year-old who was widely respected in the Baltimore County martial arts community, was killed in a crash Friday night in Cockeysville that left three other teenagers injured, police said Sunday.
On Sunday, the makeshift memorial at the site of a car crash at the intersection of Poplar Hill Road and Merrymans Mill Road in Cockeysville; car shrapnel and heavy tire marks are still visible near the tree. The crash, which happened on Friday night, left three minors injured and one adult dead.
Timonium lawyer killed at his home by son-in-law, police say
Baltimore County Police on Sunday charged a 41-year-old man after the fatal shooting of his father-in-law in his quiet neighborhood in Phoenix, officers said.
Sawmill Court in Phoenix, where a domestic dispute occurred Saturday afternoon.
Fake deeds, real money: New York investors accused of another Baltimore scam
A February lawsuit alleges New York investors got $1.7 million using fabricated property records.
A February lawsuit alleges New York investors got $1.7 million using fabricated property records for 11 rowhouses in Baltimore.
Moore nabs some small housing wins, but his most ambitious ideas failed
Here’s an update on how some of the most talked-about housing bills fared this session.
Gov. Wes Moore is greeted by legislators ahead of his annual State of the State address in February.
City moving to payment plans to help homeowners avoid tax sales
For the first time, city taxpayers may be able to pay their debts in monthly installments.
The Baltimore City Council advanced a bill on Tuesday that would create a monthly payment-plan system to help residents avoid losing their properties in the annual tax sale.
How Baltimore students are being trained to join the city’s vacant housing fight
Requity wants to scale so that vocational students complete one vacant house a year.
Requity, a work-based training program, holds a ribbon-cutting of the first home largely rehabbed by high school students.
Maryland pushes granny flats as housing pressures mount
Maryland leaders are embracing accessory dwelling units as the cost of living rises and young people flee the state.
An accessory dwelling unit, right, built by Makara Builders in Arlington, Virginia.
The FBI is investigating the New York investors behind Baltimore’s foreclosure wave
Federal investigators are digging into a group of New York investors who borrowed more than $100 million in private credit and rapidly built a real estate portfolio of about 700 homes in Baltimore.
The New York investors started snapping up hundreds of homes across East and West Baltimore in 2022, buying or refinancing them at values often double or triple their prior sales price.
Maryland bill could make credit scores less important for some renters
The bill would add to Maryland’s renter protections, but opponents say it could make housing more expensive.
Tenant Mandee Crumpton said her credit score nearly tanked her housing search a few years ago.
From $3.7M to $9.9M: Federal probe focuses on 42 Baltimore homes sold again and again
Federal prosecutors have charged an attorney in connection to a 2021 real estate investment scheme that centers on 42 rowhomes in East Baltimore owned by a group of New York investors.
The scheme under investigation by federal prosecutors includes this vacant property at 521 N. East Ave.
It’s tax sale season. Here’s how you can avoid it.
Tax sale nightmares are avoidable. Here are some tips for new and established homeowners to ensure your property stays off the auction list.
An auction sign hangs on the porch of a Baltimore rowhouse.
Baltimore group fights addiction, homelessness with gentle touch — and soup
Starting last year, community groups like Helping Up Mission began to receive tens of millions of dollars from the city’s opioid restitution fund to combat an ongoing overdose crisis.
Peter Griffin, left, director of outreach and intake for Helping Up Mission, and Keith Dunkley, right, greet Ruben Gregg during a stop with the nonprofit’s Mobile Street Outreach team in Baltimore last month.
A Baltimore family’s home for 6 decades lost over an $888 tax bill
The Harris family thought they had protected a family home from tax sale in Baltimore City, but an $888 unpaid tax bill sent the property to foreclosure.
The Harris family on the porch of their family home, which was sold in a tax sale without their knowledge. Clockwise from left are Aajah Harris, Natasha Pratt-Harris, Carlos Harris, and Cairo Harris, seated.
West Baltimore tenants win $1.4 million, settlement in landlord fraud case
A group of West Baltimore tenants claimed it was an act of fraud to charge rent without a license.
Cora Williams returns to her apartment in the Bellevieu Manchester apartments. She is one of several city tenants suing their landlord and property manager over their failure to procure a rental license, arguing that it was intentional fraud.
Contested Towson development ordered to pause due to missing permit
Red Maple Place, one of the Baltimore region’s most contested housing developments, faces yet another obstacle after Maryland’s environmental agency ordered a moratorium on some construction work.
A rendering shows Homes for American's plan for Red Maple Place, an apartment building on Joppa Road that would have 50 affordably priced units and six market-rent units. A Circuit Court judge has given a green light to the controversial proposal.
Baltimore council bill would penalize landlords who threaten tenants with ICE
Baltimore City Council members are considering legislation that would enable increased oversight of abusive and negligent landlords — and would revoke rental licenses specifically for those who retaliate against undocumented immigrants.
The legislation comes as the city ramps up its existing tenant safety measure and prepares for possible heightened ICE activity in and around Baltimore.
Baltimore planning director Timothy Keane nominated as housing commissioner
Timothy Keane will also lead a six-month study into whether Baltimore’s housing and planning agencies could be combined.
Timothy Keane has been nominated to take over as Baltimore’s housing director.
Baltimore’s vacants are chronically undervalued — but things are improving
New research concludes the problem is likely a localized issue and that Baltimore is a “dramatic outlier” in Maryland.
Many vacant houses still stand in the Sandtown Winchester neighborhood on March 19, 2025. Empty and vacant lots replace them, but residents say it hasn't improved the area.
Baltimore could overhaul how it runs its tax sale as part of court agreement
The Edmondson Community Organization in 2024 filed a lawsuit that challenged Baltimore’s tax sale system.
The exterior of Bonita Anderson’s home, center, on Roslyn Ave. in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, December 12, 2024. Anderson is one of many Baltimore residents at risk of losing their homes due to tax sale because of city errors.
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