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A couple inspects the final view of their first home together in Bowie, Md.,  on December 20, 2024.
2025 housing outlook: What to consider if you’re thinking of buying
The housing market has cooled off some since the start of the pandemic, but industry insiders said to expect no dramatic changes in home supply or pricing next year.
All this actually happened in 2024: The year in Maryland politics
Here are six stories The Banner’s political team can’t stop thinking about.
Bonita Anderson is interviewed inside her home in Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, December 11, 2024. Anderson is one of many Baltimore residents at risk of losing their homes due to tax sale because of city errors.
After losing her home, Baltimore woman joins federal lawsuit challenging tax sale
Filed this past July, the lawsuit argues that the tax sale system in Baltimore is unconstitutional.
The Days Inn motel in Towson, seen top right, will soon be cleared to make way for a new affordable housing development in a commercial section of Loch Raven.
Loch Raven motel being cleared for affordable housing in Baltimore County
“Loch Raven Overlook” will be constructed near where Tuesday’s deadly shooting occurred in Towson.
Real estate developer Brandon Chasen in May.
Chasen Cos.’ Fells Point development stalled as property faces foreclosure
A bank has filed to foreclose on a high-profile Chasen Cos. property at 1400 Aliceanna St.
Henry Earle, 21, during a drywall training course at the Detroit Training Center, which specializes in workforce development programs in construction, manufacturing, and transportation in Detroit, Mich. on Sept. 20, 2024.
Fixing Baltimore’s vacant property economy could help everyone — just ask Detroit
Even as wealth grows in Detroit, some say they feel left behind.
A view of Harbor Point, which received a tax break in the form of a TIF.
Baltimore gave out developer tax breaks. Is the city seeing the benefits?
Baltimore’s TIF-backed developments are, slowly but surely, making money, a new report finds.
Faresha Sim poses for a portrait in her apartment in the Avalon on April 20, 2024. She wears a mask and gloves the majority of the time because of mold.
Mold is everywhere. Maryland may try to do something about it.
State officials could set a threshold for when mold should be considered hazardous or mandate a time frame for remediation. But without more research, Maryland’s rules likely won’t go far enough.
Rachel Oslund, a home inspector, demonstrates how she uses a sticky test strip to collect potential mold spores from a window sill for further testing in a lab.
Think you have mold at home? Here’s when to call in the professionals.
Here are some frequently asked questions that could help determine when your mold problem is more than just a nuisance.
Attendees gather at the Legacy at Twin Rivers site prior to a ribbon cutting ceremony on 4/19/2024 in Columbia, MD.
Maryland wants more housing for the homeless — and it could cost developers
The proposal has alarmed the affordable housing community, which fears the collapse of the industry.
Incoming city council members, from left, Mark Parker, Jermaine Jones, Zac Blanchard, and Paris Gray.
Baltimore City Council’s new blood wants to do ‘really dope stuff’
These four freshmen say they’re here to shake up the status quo.
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski signed an order Tuesday requiring developers receiving county help to offer a percentage of housing units at an affordable price.
Taking one last big swing on housing, Olszewski issues affordability mandate
The executive order is a retort to Baltimore County Council members who have attempted to put guardrails on the administration’s housing affordability and productivity goals.
Cars drive past Horseshoe Casino on Russell Street in South Baltimore on Thursday, October 17, 2024.
Baltimore took a big bet on casino gambling. A decade later, the chips are down.
Horseshoe Casino, which opened a decade ago, has seen declining revenues since their peak in 2016, and employs about one-third as many people as in its first year.
Celeste Amato and Steve Strickland, who work in Mayor Brandon Scott's administration, outside of Baltimore’s City Hall after getting married on Nov. 9, 2024.
This City Hall love story proves romance can happen anywhere
A lucky few discover love knee-deep in the crisis of a massive water main break in the middle of the woods.
Hosanna Smith, 42, walks her dog, Dundie, 5, in her neighborhood on Nov. 22 2024 in Detroit, Mich. Smith bought her home in 2018 using the Detroit Land Bank Authority’s “Rehabbed and Ready” program.
A land bank helped with Detroit’s vacants, but Baltimore leaders are unconvinced
Detroit officials found Baltimore’s response to a land bank proposal “unfortunate” and lacking context.
The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has removed CEO Rachel Graham after just seven months on the job.
BOPA votes to oust CEO as arts group faces financial peril
Graham’s departure is “effective immediately,” BOPA interim Chair and CEO Robyn Murphy said at the close of a special meeting Wednesday. Murphy was temporarily appointed to both roles while the board searches for new leadership.
8 Maryland experiences to gift for the holidays
Experiences can offer the perfect solution for those friends and relatives who claim they don’t need any more stuff.
Rockland Run resident Diana Evans looks up at the damaged ceiling above her bed. She has had to deal with water coming through the ceiling in her first floor condo multiple times in the past couple of years.
A Baltimore County complex shows how it’s getting more expensive to own a condo
In the midst of a dispute over rising fees, some say more laws and resources could alleviate the strain on common ownership communities.
Pam Macapagal pictured in her shelter moments after she was told she'd no longer be evicted.
As Baltimore sweeps encampments, some residents feel discarded too
At one Baltimore encampment, leaving can be more challenging than staying.
David Smith is the sole funder of the group working to shrink city council.
David Smith wanted to cut Baltimore City Council. He united it instead.
“It was kind of a gift that David Smith and the proponents of the bill gave this city,” said Zac Blanchard, who unseated a Smith-backed candidate in May.
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