Housing

With an executive order Tuesday, the Maryland governor launched a new initiative to address the decades-long issue of vacant properties in the city.

Baltimore’s City Council is looking at a new and untested approach with a special financing package aimed at revitalizing blighted neighborhoods.

Changes to juvenile crime laws, protections for gender-affirming care, and new requirements for motorcycle and horse riders become law on October 1.

Blighted row houses in East Baltimore have been rehabilitated into affordable units where 15 international teachers are now living onsite.

During the town hall, attendees formed small groups to discuss strategies for attracting more residents, resources for renters and homeowners and improving affordability.

A rooftop pool leak lead to the evacuation of the Axel Brewers Hill Apartments, fire officials said Friday.

Baltimore’s Housing Department enacted the fixed pricing program earlier this year. It allows residents and community land trusts to purchase city-owned vacant properties for one dollar.

“This is not an anti-landlord bill. It’s an anti-slumlord bill.”

There are more than thirteen thousand abandoned buildings in Baltimore City. We hear from two entities - a non-profit and a for-profit - that are chipping away at Baltimore's vacant blight.

We’ll go On the Record with the head of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance. It tracks thousands of data points that show ways different parts of the city have rebounded from the pandemic -- and ways they haven't.