Housing

Advocates for homeless people erected a tent encampment early Wednesday to draw attention to the city’s crisis and the encampments they say are popping up across Baltimore.

Eaddy has her movement. Now comes the hard part.

Federal housing officials in the Baltimore HUD field office have requested an investigation from Office of the Inspector General of Investigations of AIDS Interfaith Residential Services and its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Homes of Maryland. Non-profit CEO says: 'There was no impropriety.'

It’s a delay that advocates for Baltimore nonprofits say can hobble organizations, especially those with shoestring staffs, who rely on the federal grant funding to meet basic needs such as paying employees and providing them with health care benefits.

The report found that tax credits are being applied not only inequitably, but inefficiently, providing overly generous breaks.

A lawsuit alleging negligence by Baltimore Gas and Electric Company in the lead-up to an explosion that leveled multiple Baltimore rowhomes in August 2020 has been postponed due to court unavailability.

Sam Cogen promises that his win for Baltimore sheriff is also a win for city tenants facing eviction.

A circuit court judge in Baltimore County has given the green light to a controversial project in East Towson, overruling a 2021 vote by the Baltimore County Board of Appeals blocking the affordable housing development.

The race for Baltimore sheriff remains in a dead heat with just several hundred votes separating incumbent Sheriff John W. Anderson and challenger Sam Cogen. The final results will not be known until all mail-in ballots have been counted, which could take weeks.

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.