Housing

Though legislation clearing the way for MCB Real Estate's $1 billion Harborplace redevelopment was introduced before City Council in October, the body held its first and only hearing on the proposal three weeks ago and is expected to give final approval Monday night.

Baltimore’s government-subsidized public housing sites are failing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development inspections at a higher rate than the national average, a Banner analysis found.

Federal officials have approved a detailed redevelopment plan for two public housing communities and other areas. The next step is to seek implementation grant funds from HUD.

Maryland social services said it would end a policy that reduced cash assistance for recipients who live in subsidized housing. A year later, it hasn't happened.

The Tenant Safety Act aims to increase rent escrow filings, which allow renters to withhold rent until repairs are made.

Some see the move to a hotel as a chance for a new start. The city plans to clear out the park by March 6.

At the start of the year, the Howard County Council failed to pass a rent stabilization bill, leaving tenants feeling the burden of rent increases.

A “compromise” bill is forthcoming, the county executive’s office said Tuesday.

“When we talk about the housing crisis that we’re all wrestling with and dealing with, we know that this is about individual lives. It’s about individual livelihoods. It’s also about the health and the success of our entire state,” the governor told lawmakers on Tuesday.

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After missing out on about $10 million in federal housing dollars, city officials have received approval to seek reimbursement for some of the money.

The deal comes nearly three years after the mayor called executing such a purchase his “top priority.”

The city is expected to offer resources, but the park is also being cleared of occupants.

The opposition to redeveloping the shopping center is emblematic of why state leaders are pushing new laws to allowing housing projects to circumvent local backlash.

Baltimore is well-suited to help solve what Gov. Wes Moore has called a housing crisis in Maryland, says Annie Milli, executive director of Live Baltimore.

Baltimore can use investment and a variety of other tools to help ease the city’s vacant housing crisis, City Councilwoman Odette Ramos says.

MCB Real Estate has purchased three multi-family buildings in the county and will keep about half the units at reduced rates.

The end of the Maryland Homeowner Assistance Fund means the loss of a lifeline for low-income residents struggling to stay in their homes.

As funding dries up, more than 200 formerly homeless Baltimoreans could lose the support of a program helping them stay under a roof and out of the hospital.

The little-known housing program supports about 900 households statewide and is now set to expand.