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    Monique Washington poses for a portrait
    Edmondson Village community leaders work together to push for change
    They are among residents throughout Baltimore doing what they can to ease problems in their communities.
    Starting in 2012, Chicago’s Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) partnered with a for-profit developer and a community group on reviving about 90 vacant and blighted buildings in a 20-block stretch of the city for rental or homeownership. The group’s first project, on the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and W 62nd Street, was converted from a vacant property into a 13-unit residential building that opened in summer 2016.
    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.
    Baltimore Banner reporter Jasmine Vaughn-Hall stands for a portrait by Penn-North station.
    Baltimore Banner West Baltimore neighborhood reporter wants to hear your stories
    Jasmine Vaughn-Hall will tell the untold narratives of the different pockets of Charm City.
    After taking advantage of an equestrian vocational training program while in prison, Alex Wooten has risen from groom to race horse exercise rider to co-owning a small horse farm with plans to develop his own program. (Charles Cohen for The Baltimore Banner)
    Preakness, someday: A horse trainer makes his own second chance
    He bet his last dollars on the animals he loved and discovered a purpose.
    Wallace Lane poses in front of Pimilco Preakness sign(Photo by Shan Wallace/The Baltimore Banner)
    Poet Wallace Lane reflects on growing up in the shadow of Preakness
    Every year, Park Heights and its residents aren’t included in the celebration.
    Dontae Winslow portrait
    How a kid from West Baltimore discovered music and is now scoring the Oscars
    Dontae Winslow will take his musical talent to the 94th Academy Awards.
    A gap between homes in the 200 block of S. Stricker St. marks the spot where a vacant home burned and collapsed, killing three Baltimore firefighters.
    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.
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