Vacant Housing

“The era of piecemeal work and backwards-looking strategies is over.”

Though the number of vacant buildings in Baltimore is decreasing, housing experts say what’s remaining needs to be dealt with urgently.

The NAACP of Baltimore is blaming city officials for negligence that led to a fire Thursday which destroyed two buildings attached to its headquarters in Charles Village.

“This was bound to happen,” said one local resident.

We’ll go On the Record to hear how Bree Jones is stabilizing neighborhoods in West Baltimore. At first, investors claimed it was futile. Plus, ‘Rebuilding Together Baltimore’ helps seniors and low-income families continue to live safely in their homes.

Councilwoman Odette Ramos (D., Dist 14) says her Land Bank bill will help the city acquire and redevelop its abandoned housing. Bree Jones' Parity Homes is already doing that. Both women join us with perspectives on how to rescue Baltimore's lost neighborhoods.

New legislation will make it easier to do something about vacant residential properties, officials say.

Two council members are proposing a land bank as a way to address the tens of thousands of vacant properties in Baltimore city.

Two members of the community action group join us with details of their strategy for fixing one of Baltimore's most intractable problems.

BUILD, which stands for Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development, has released a report analyzing the scale of blight across Baltimore City and calls for an enormous investment to wipe out the city’s long standing vacancy problem.