Housing

A city-funded grant program will help cover down payment and closing costs for residents who live in East and West Baltimore.

Several members of the Baltimore City Council raised concerns that the legislation would chase Black residents from the city.

The new rules will limit each side of a city block, defined as a “block face,” with no more than 10% of short-term rentals.

Two LLCs connected to the buyers have declared bankruptcy and many of the homes in the portfolio are entering foreclosure.

The foreclosures could send neighborhoods spiraling and make Baltimore America’s next great housing crisis.

Landlords like Dontae Carroll say Wall Street’s freeze on a specific housing loan has put their plans to purchase on hold.

Animal shelters across Maryland are struggling with record overcrowding — thanks in large part to an increasingly high cost of living.

Baltimore County Police charged Mark Anthony Hawkins on Tuesday night with first-degree arson and malicious burning after the explosion of his Rosedale home in July.

Nearly three months after a Rosedale home exploded in the middle of the night, Baltimore County fire investigators charged the homeowner with arson.

The 2024 state law, named the WARMTH Act, calls on Baltimore Gas and Electric Company and Washington Gas Light Company to develop pilot programs that would incorporate geothermal energy — collected underground from the Earth’s natural heat — in low-and-moderate income communities.

Chasen, 39, testified on Monday that he will be living at a building on Eastern Avenue in Fells Point that once served as his namesake company’s headquarters.

In a poll commissioned by The Banner, more than eight in 10 respondents said that the county’s lack of affordable housing is a problem.

The 4-3 vote along party lines followed impassioned public testimony at the end of a four-hour legislative meeting Monday night.

Monday's bill would pare back a 2024 law that incentivizes "workforce" housing.

Proceedings at a Baltimore City Council hearing were briefly paused Thursday after a former councilman refused to cede the microphone.

Baltimore County incomes fell for the fifth time in a row, and that's placing a greater strain on the county's renters, a Banner analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data found.

New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau suggests a harsh reality: it’s never been harder for young families to move to Howard County.

Last year, 4 of 10 households renting in Baltimore spent 35% or more of their income on rent, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy is changing roles as Baltimore faces criticism for its permitting overhaul.

A historic hilltop campus on the edge of two Baltimore neighborhoods is being transformed into affordable housing for families.