Housing

Audio of the emergency dispatch calls placed that afternoon include two calls for “Mayday” and a scramble for information.

With a historic investment, SB7 is tasked with something both novel and daunting: using money from developers to fill in the gaps left behind by generations of neglect.

A City Council vote on a bill to help expand affordable housing in Baltimore is long overdue, Kevin Slayton, a city resident and clergyman, says.

A GoFundMe campaign started in support of Lt. Dillon Rinaldo had raised $47,000 towards a $100,000 goal as of Sunday morning.

A recent Live Baltimore survey of more than 1,000 Baltimore City homebuyers revealed that the most important factors in purchasing a home in the city are simply just liking the city and working in the city.

Here’s what we know now about Thursday’s deadly house fire on Linden Heights Avenue.

It’s time for Baltimore County to make good on its obligation to bring residents more affordable housing, says David Plymyer, an attorney who lives in the county.

Lidl officially signed a lease for a 36,000-square-foot space this past February in the Perkins-Somerset-Oldtown footprint, ending a long hunt for a grocer in the area.

Howard County is the latest in a string of Baltimore area governments proposing solutions to mitigate cost burdens on renters and homebuyers.

Maryland needs air quality standards to curb harmful emissions from heating and air conditioning systems and water heaters, say Panagis Galiatsatos, an associate professor and a physician in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins, and Ruth Ann Norton, president and CEO of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative.

Baltimore needs to prioritize emergency rental assistance to protect families from the physical and mental harm caused by evictions, representatives of two community advocacy groups say.

Rev. Kobi Little of the Baltimore NAACP called for the resignation of two city housing officials and said that Mayor Brandon Scott “needs to either step up and lead or step aside” following a fire at a vacant building that damaged the organization’s offices.

The bill, introduced this week, would require a portion of all new residential developments with a certain number of units to be set aside for people with incomes at or below the Baltimore-area median.

In Uplands, residents allege being shortchanged by developers and government officials who promised them safe and affordable housing.

As the Greater Baltimore Committee focuses on boosting this region’s economic competitiveness, it must also support programs to end the economic apartheid that now plagues the city’s disadvantaged Black neighborhoods, says Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University.

“If we don’t make any changes, someone else is going to make the changes for us,” City Councilwoman Danielle McCray said at Thursday’s hearing.

Property Invest USA, a Miami-based company that facilitated the transaction — along with nearly 300 others across Baltimore to foreign buyers — "overpromised and underperformed.”

Those who violate the ordinance will face a civil penalty of $1,000 a day, according to the draft, with each violation considered a separate offense. The violation carries with it a misdemeanor charge.

Staff turnover, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic, has affected how efficiently the office runs, the homeless agency’s leader told City Council. The agency is tasked with overseeing large amounts of money from the federal government, a challenge even with more staffing and resources than the office has now.

Dayspring Programs, Inc., stopped paying rents for at least five tenants, records show, despite being legally obligated to do so.