Housing

Brandon Chasen’s development company is dialing back its national expansion plans and slowing its pace in Baltimore, too.

A lawsuit filed last week is the latest addition to a pile of civil claims tied to ABC Capital and Castle Title that keeps growing as the Maryland Insurance Administration investigates discrepancies raised by a civil lawyer and reported by The Baltimore Banner.

Early Friday, a fire in the basement of a Federal Hill church forced 17 shelter residents to evacuate. Baltimore Outreach Services relocated them to a hotel.

The community pool at Harbour House has been closed, summer programs have been canceled and there have been staff reductions due to funding issues faced by the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis.

Baltimore County Executive says he stands ready to compromise on a better bill.

Housing secretary Jake Day said the bill would have a calamitous effect on rent and housing costs.

West Baltimore residents talk about what they’d like to see in Poppleton, now that the city is terminating its agreement with a New York developer that has struggled to build there.

The $8.45 million commitment will support commercial corridors, small businesses and rehabilitating vacant homes.

The worker-owned business employs a diverse workforce, which has first dibs on every home it rehabs.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday passed a contentious measure designed to reduce overcrowding in schools by adding an approval process for developers who want to build new housing.

The goal, developers say, is to turn affordable housing on its head — making seamless with surrounding communities and attractive to residents of various income brackets.

The historic cornices, vent covers, trims and other ornate fixtures they made in class will go on renovated Baltimore homes in Black neighborhoods.

A preservationist developer wanted to modernize an old 25-bedroom hotel in Mount Vernon. Now, the property sits with a listing price at $1.6 million.

Baltimore County Council member David Marks says a critic of his approach to reforming the county Planning Board should participate in the council’s reform effort.

“I need to do everything that I can to try to avoid the avoidable ones, and then try to help people once they have been evicted,” Cogen said.

The American Cancer Society is selling a Montgomery County mansion donated by former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder and his wife Tanya Snyder.

A measure to change the selection process for Baltimore County's Planning Board might have less to do with concerns about planning generally and more to do with opposition to mixed-use development that would include affordable housing, says a county resident who writes about law and local government issues.

Anne Arundel Connecting Together, a nonpartisan alliance of 18 faith congregations and community groups, wants to see county action on a moderately priced dwelling unit bill after an earlier proposal was narrowly defeated last year.

The deal is the state’s first enforcement action against the real estate company. Jay Walsh, who ran ABC, faces criminal charges in Maryland.

Baltimore County’s agreement with MCB Real Estate to develop housing that’s attainable for working families should serve as a model for addressing the county’s unmet housing needs, County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. says.