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The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
Baltimore approved to seek millions in housing money lost to administrative errors
After missing out on about $10 million in federal housing dollars, city officials have received approval to seek reimbursement for some of the money.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott gives remarks during the 2nd annual Homeless Persons' Memorial Day service at McKeldin Square in Downtown Baltimore.
Scott administration delivers long-promised deal to buy hotels for shelters
The deal comes nearly three years after the mayor called executing such a purchase his “top priority.”
Two black and white yard signs, one that reads "save suburbia, no new light rail, no TOD, no apartments" and the other "no apartments, no compromise" are staked into the grass in front of a suburban street with cars and single family homes in the background.
What the fight over an empty shopping center says about Maryland’s housing issues
The opposition to redeveloping the shopping center is emblematic of why state leaders are pushing new laws to allowing housing projects to circumvent local backlash.
The exterior of Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sunday, April 16.
Orioles came close to selling stadium naming rights to T. Rowe Price
A celebratory announcement was scheduled for early February but the sale of a majority stake in the team has put the sponsorship deal on hold.
Maryland, Baltimore City, Baltimore County politics
Banner political notes: Tax sale bill moves on; bill on bills; Shorty for Johnny
Baltimore City’s Annapolis delegation voted to advance a bill Friday designed to protect homeowners, tenants and heirs from the annual tax sale list.
A poster of the late Pava Marie LaPere is propped on a chair in the Maryland House of Delegates Judiciary Committee room on Feb. 6, 2024 during a hearing on the Pava Marie LaPere Act.
Bates, LaPere family ask for early release limits for some sex offenders
The bill comes in response to the death of Pava LaPere, 26, who was killed in September
Rachel D. Graham is the new chief executive officer of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, or BOPA.
After a year of tumult, BOPA names Rachel D. Graham as its new CEO
Rachel D. Graham will succeed Donna Drew Sawyer, who resigned from the position as CEO of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, or BOPA, last January.
Maryland, Baltimore City, Baltimore County politics
Banner political notes: Swift defeat for high school sports bill; Olszewski off to fast start; Davis nabs council endorsements
Maryland lawmakers this week quickly defeated a bill that targeted young transgender athletes’ participation in high school sports — the third year in a row they’ve turned down similar bills.
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., joined by state and county officials and members of the MCB Real Estate team, announces what he referred to as the largest “attainable” housing deal in county history at the BLVD at White Springs in Nottingham, Maryland. (Hallie Miller / The Baltimore Banner)
Harborplace developer strikes deal with Baltimore County for affordable housing
MCB Real Estate has purchased three multi-family buildings in the county and will keep about half the units at reduced rates.
There is a program showing success at getting and keeping people in housing in Baltimore, but funding for the program is at risk.
A Baltimore program keeps people healthy and housed. Hospitals may stop funding it anyway.
As funding dries up, more than 200 formerly homeless Baltimoreans could lose the support of a program helping them stay under a roof and out of the hospital.
The Maryland State House is encircled by construction scaffolding for an ongoing renovation project, as lawmakers returned to Annapolis for the first day of their 90-day General Assembly session on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024.
A housing program that kept Marylanders out of hospitals could get state funding
The little-known housing program supports about 900 households statewide and is now set to expand.
Maryland, Baltimore City, Baltimore County politics
Banner political notes: Effort continues to tax vacant homes; Cohen endorses Parker
Maryland lawmakers, for the fourth consecutive year, will consider a bill that would enable Baltimore’s mayor and City Council to set a higher property tax rate for vacant, blighted and abandoned properties.
Photo illustration shows Mayor Brandon Scott on left side of image, facing two groups of activists demonstrating, Council President Nick Mosby and Councilwoman Odette Ramos on right side of image, facing him. In between Mayor Scott and the others is one Baltimore row house in purple.
Internal emails reveal conflict within mayor’s team before affordable-housing vote
The documents show how Mayor Brandon Scott came to support Baltimore’s sweeping new inclusionary housing law despite 11th-hour changes and warnings from his agencies about the financial consequences.
There is a growing link between the number of pets surrendered and abandoned and housing issues, including evictions and rising rents. Baltimore County Animal Services took in Storm Ray the pit bull this year. She was available for adoption as of Jan. 10.
How bad is Maryland’s housing crisis? Check the animal shelters
Trouble finding affordable housing that allows pets is now the most common reason animals are surrendered at Baltimore-area shelters.
Melissa, who asked to withhold her last name to protect her son’s privacy, poses for a portrait inside her Baltimore hotel on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Melissa is facing eviction after a housing nonprofit stopped paying her rent earlier this year.
After a Baltimore nonprofit stopped paying rent, 2 families face eviction — again
Update: Donors have pledged to keep the families in their hotel for another two weeks.
Indigo Null, a tenant at the Copycat who challenged their 2020 eviction and has been living there rent-free ever since, is finally being forced out of their home.  Null hugs partner Truman Holman. 
 The end of an era, after 4years of fighting an 10 years of living at the COPYCAT, Null is evicted.
Copycat tenant is forced to move out after yearslong court battle
The case helped catalyze a new state law that took effect in October requiring landlords who evict tenants be licensed in jurisdictions where rental licenses are required.
Construction of new buildings at the site of the former Perkins Homes in April 2023.
Gov. Moore housing agenda: Development, density and renter protections
The package is expected to draw opposition some groups and politicians in Maryland who believe each locality should be given autonomy over how to control housing within their borders.
Properties on Biddle Street in Johnston Square that ReBUILD Metro will convert into housing for school employees.
Affordable housing faces hurdles. Does ‘teacher housing’ have an easier path?
Offering rent relief to “front-line” and lower-wage workers, such as teachers, is one way developers, lawmakers and local officials are attempting to build more income-inclusive neighborhoods.
Attendees at Baltimore’s annual Homeless Persons' Memorial Day service sort through items provided for guests to take with them when they leave in December 2022.
With another winter here, city has no deal to purchase hotels to house homeless
Leaders in Baltimore’s homelessness office have indicated in recent weeks that the city is nearing a deal to acquire one or more hotels.
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball is in his second term. In 2018, he became the first African American to be elected to the post.
Howard County housing bills fail over council rent cap concerns
A package of housing bills that would have eased the mounting cost burden on Howard County residents failed to advance through the County Council, effectively ending the county executive’s campaign for rent control and more affordability in one of Maryland's most expensive areas.
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