Housing

A new proposal before the Baltimore City Council could dramatically rewrite the city’s building regulations, banning single-family zoning policies that advocates argue have driven housing scarcity and more than a century of segregation.

AIRS board members, supposed to act as a check on the nonprofit's leadership, have not responded to multiple requests for comment.

The suit argued Westminster charged tenants illegal fees and failed to maintain the properties and aggressively and “illegally” used Maryland’s eviction laws.

A surge in demand for rental assistance funds by people imminently facing eviction and diminishing landlord participation is straining the city's rental assistance office.

The cause of the fires remains under investigation, although neighbors say the burning of pride flags at the homes suggests a hate crime.

Banner housing reporter Sophie Kasakove shares her favorite bits of Baltimore architecture and what she's been able to learn about them.

Federal laws don’t require landlords to pay for accommodations for tenants with disabilities.

Out of more than 6,000 parcels eligible for adoption, 207 vacant lots currently are licensed for it.

The economic and social costs of the city’s vacant housing crisis “far exceed the investment needed to bring them back to productive use,” the report argues.

A speaker mounted on an East Pratt Street light pole repeatedly played the song 'Baby Shark' at pedestrians last week, possibly to shoo away an unsheltered man from sleeping on the street.

Thanks to the state's cheap and easy filing process, eviction filing rates in Maryland far outpace those of neighboring states, creating additional costs for tenants.

The proposed Madison Park North development has the potential to be a standout gateway to West Baltimore, backers say. A groundbreaking will be held Aug. 25, 2020.

City officials wanted the tents gone to make room for another event.

Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, median rents for new leases in Baltimore City have increased by 18.8 percent.

Advocates for homeless people erected a tent encampment early Wednesday to draw attention to the city’s crisis and the encampments they say are popping up across Baltimore.

Eaddy has her movement. Now comes the hard part.

Federal housing officials in the Baltimore HUD field office have requested an investigation from Office of the Inspector General of Investigations of AIDS Interfaith Residential Services and its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Homes of Maryland. Non-profit CEO says: 'There was no impropriety.'

It’s a delay that advocates for Baltimore nonprofits say can hobble organizations, especially those with shoestring staffs, who rely on the federal grant funding to meet basic needs such as paying employees and providing them with health care benefits.

The report found that tax credits are being applied not only inequitably, but inefficiently, providing overly generous breaks.

A lawsuit alleging negligence by Baltimore Gas and Electric Company in the lead-up to an explosion that leveled multiple Baltimore rowhomes in August 2020 has been postponed due to court unavailability.