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Housing
Cogen’s win in Baltimore sheriff race comes with a promise for a more ‘humanizing’ eviction process
Sam Cogen promises that his win for Baltimore sheriff is also a win for city tenants facing eviction.
Plan for affordable housing at Red Maple Place in East Towson can move forward, judge rules
A circuit court judge in Baltimore County has given the green light to a controversial project in East Towson, overruling a 2021 vote by the Baltimore County Board of Appeals blocking the affordable housing development.
Baltimore sheriff race remains close after Friday evening vote tallies
The race for Baltimore sheriff remains in a dead heat with just several hundred votes separating incumbent Sheriff John W. Anderson and challenger Sam Cogen. The final results will not be known until all mail-in ballots have been counted, which could take weeks.
Baltimore nonprofit finds local homes for travelers seeking abortion, other medical care
Hosts for Humanity, a small nonprofit that assists people traveling to Baltimore for healthcare, is relaunching next month and broadening its scope to welcome those coming here for abortions. Already, 15 new families have signed up to be hosts.
A Baltimore nonprofit that houses vulnerable tenants stopped paying rents. Now, many fear eviction.
City officials said they are committed to ensuring every tenant stays housed — and paying off what’s now owed to landlords in back payments.
A man took poison here: Tales in restoring a century-old Baltimore rowhouse
Our lives are forever marked by the pandemic years. We are different people than before. We saw death, yet life went on. I restored a broken-down rowhouse in Baltimore.
Baltimore’s biggest math problem: Why the city’s vacant housing crisis isn’t getting better
Baltimore doesn’t have enough money to tackle every neighborhood. And the vacancy challenge is growing.
What Baltimore can learn from other cities that have tackled vacant properties
The Baltimore Banner went looking for examples of how other cities have addressed vacant and blighted housing. These are some of their stories.
What Baltimore-area homebuyers can expect this spring
Buyers are routinely offering more than $100,000 over asking price for homes in the Baltimore area, making it very challenging to buy a home.
Despite historic investment in rental assistance, Baltimore-area renters still falling through the cracks
A historic amount of federal pandemic aid is a challenge for local governments to distribute.
Family that owns home where firefighters died speaks out for first time, illustrates city’s challenges with vacants
A look at the history of a vacant property in West Baltimore, where a fire claimed the lives of three Baltimore firefighters. The blaze has revived a decades-old debate about how the city should tackle its scourge of vacant homes.
