Housing

A Banner analysis shows city residents wait weeks, often months, and sometimes almost a year to get a trash can when they request one.

Developers plan to break ground on Viva White Oak before the end of the year, but the project’s full build-out is still years away.

Coppin State University’s program, launched in 2023 with $300,000 in state funding, has now helped faculty and staff members buy six homes near campus.

Three workers were fired from the Baltimore housing office that placed a mother and six children in a rowhome later condemned as unsafe.

The owner of a property in Annapolis that used to belong to a radio station wants to build nearly 50 homes on the relatively small plot.

“It’s unacceptable that those children were living in a condition like that,” Mayor Scott said. “Everybody that had an opportunity to do something that did not will feel the full wrath of me in city government.”

Takoma Park’s rent stabilization law faces review as city leaders weigh impacts on affordability, housing quality and community diversity.

The Baltimore City Council is debating a bill that even its sponsor acknowledged rattles landlords and property managers.

A TikTok video got people thinking: Does Owings Mills have a downtown?

In some parts of Baltimore, rooftop decks are almost as synonymous with city life as the summer crab feast or a cold Natty Boh. They offer a respite from the hustle and bustle below and an outdoor “flex” space that makes the traditional rowhome feel roomier.

The city's Office of Inspector General investigated complaints involving three hotel-turned-homeless shelters. It found a range of problems.

More than 3,000 Baltimore buildings have been vacant for two decades or longer.

Since April, staff at the century-old St. Paul’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church has used a couple dozen bunk beds to shelter people who have nowhere else to go.

Baltimore faces growing challenges from 21,000 empty lots. Mayor Brandon Scott’s aim to eliminate vacant buildings could create more of them.

The empire of the once-splashy real estate developer Chasen Cos. is being divvied up, though some properties are languishing without new owners.

Administrative errors in Baltimore’s tax sale process put a teacher’s rental property at risk. Now the city is moving to help reverse the foreclosure.

COLUMN | Anne Arundel County is lowering the speed limit on Forest Drive in Annapolis from 40 to 35 mph on Monday, the first big step in a $10 million plan to make this dysfunctional back door to Maryland’s state capital safer.

Maryland is trying to combat a housing affordability crisis — and incentivize more public transit use in the process — by building denser development near train stations. Nearly 100 acres of Prince George’s County land could be the biggest yet.

Maryland is on track to build its fewest new housing units since the Great Recession. A new law passed by Congress could change that.