Housing

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.

City officials said they are committed to ensuring every tenant stays housed — and paying off what’s now owed to landlords in back payments.

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 doesn’t have enough money to tackle every neighborhood. And the vacancy challenge is growing.

The Baltimore Banner went looking for examples of how other cities have addressed vacant and blighted housing. These are some of their stories.

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.

A historic amount of federal pandemic aid is a challenge for local governments to distribute.

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.