Housing

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Brown’s Motel, located in Ellicott City, is set to close on Dec. 10. Residents, many whom have lived in the motel for years, have to be out of the motel by Friday, Dec. 6.

The proposal has alarmed the affordable housing community, which fears the collapse of the industry.

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.

Hospitals are seeing an increasing number of homeless patients walking into emergency rooms. After they’re admitted, some refuse to leave. This is the story of a lawsuit Sinai Hospital filed against one such patient.

An Essex boardinghouse faces likely closure after a local zoning appeals board found that it hadn’t met the requirements to stay open despite being out of compliance with the zoning code.

The proposal would set the tax rate for vacant and abandoned homes at three times the typical rate in its first year.

In the midst of a dispute over rising fees, some say more laws and resources could alleviate the strain on common ownership communities.

At one Baltimore encampment, leaving can be more challenging than staying.

Thirteen families have secured housing through newly built, 400-square-foot homes built in an alleyway. The project, called Hope Village, offers affordable homeownership in East Baltimore’s Oliver community.

High property values and relative population density have given the town an outsized importance in the county’s economic picture.

Two grants are offered: up to $10,000 to purchase a home or up to $20,000 to purchase and renovate a home.

The tenants said MCB Real Estate was a subpar landlord that drove down the shopping center’s value.

Owners of vacant properties would eventually pay a tax rate four times that of typical properties.

A win on fraud and deceit would be a "huge win" for tenants, attorneys for the case said.

The state wants to build fewer parking lots and more mixed-use developments on the 300 acres it owns within a half-mile of transit stations.

Kathy and Matthew Schmale, both 63, died early Tuesday in a five-alarm fire that affected at least eight homes on Keswick Road in Hampden, family said.

Nine Baltimore nonprofits will receive a cut of a $4 million commitment from JPMorgan Chase.

The state transportation department wants to encourage new apartment buildings and other development around stations along the MARC Penn Line.

Thursday’s ruling means voters will cast ballots on a charter amendment which would allow MCB Real Estate, a private company, to redevelop the site of the existing Harborplace pavilions.