baltimore housing

Cab Calloway's legacy and history should be honored and remembered, but we don't think keeping his dilapidated childhood home is the way to do it.

An employee of the Baltimore Housing Department was allowed to stay on the payroll after moving to Europe to study, the city's inspector general found.

We hope city officials use the water main break near Poe Homes as a learning experience on how not to respond in the future.

Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott will on Monday formally call city agencies to a hearing on their response to the water outage at Poe Homes.

Developers worry the expiration of a city property tax credit will undermine Baltimore's new home construction and renovation market.

The Department of Public Works said it had restored water to the Poe Homes Saturday evening after residents went more than five days without.

Illegal dumping is an issue in Baltimore City. Here's what you can do to help.

Much of the Port Covington development project in Baltimore qualifies as an opportunity zone for lucrative tax breaks due to misaligned maps.

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City unveiled its new Housing Choice Voucher Program kiosks and online service for residents.

Baltimore City officials say 65% of employees have email access and expect 95% of email addresses to be restored next week.

Abell Foundation President Robert C. Embry Jr. is being inducted into The Sun's Business and Civic Hall of Fame.

Veteran public relations and marketing executive Sandy Hillman joins The Sun's Business and Civic Hall of Fame.

Under a redevelopment plan announced Tuesday, 38 rowhouses will be revitalized in the city's historic Upton neighborhood.

Three years into a legal settlement targeting housing policies, Baltimore County says more than half of the 1,000 affordable homes it promised are built or in the works. But challenges remain as the county navigates the multiyear settlement under the administration of a new county executive.

Baltimore building inspectors visited Pimlico Race Course this week and confirmed deterioration in the Old Grandstand that led the Maryland Jockey Club to close off nearly 7,000 seats for Preakness weekend next month.

Are there really structural problems with a grandstand at Pimlico or this part of the Stronach Group's plan to make the horse track in Northwest Baltimore irrelevant.

After Baltimore’s wettest year on record, housing advocates are seeking more protections for low-income tenants battling mold in their rental homes — and a city councilman is calling for a hearing on the problem.

More than 100 families will begin moving out of Gilmor Homes in May to clear the properties for demolition under a plan to help address crime in the West Baltimore community.

Old, rundown complexes in Baltimore are the main culprit. Federal and city data show that 22 of 37 Baltimore sites failed their most recent inspections.

Baltimore City's OK of $2.5 million for an animal care facility in Cherry Hill will also house Baltimore Animal and Rescue Care Services.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh didn’t obtain the necessary permits for renovations to a new home and has never resolved the matter, despite the head of the city’s housing department presenting her two years ago with a memo outlining steps for coming into compliance.

Baltimore Del. Nick Mosby on Tuesday called on Anne Arundel County officials to immediately conduct inspections of the living conditions that Laurel Park provides to its backstretch workers at the racetrack.

The Baltimore City Council has passed a bill that seeks to prevent landlords with more than five contiguous dwellings from discriminating against people who want to use housing vouchers to pay rent.

Heat and hot water should be restored at Baltimore's Latrobe Homes by 8 p.m., after some residents have been without heat since Tuesday.

The Baltimore housing department has a new framework for community development using targeted impact areas and new investment funds, under a plan to be released Wednesday by the Pugh administration. Commissioner Michael Braverman said the housing department is zeroed in on addressing blight.

In Baltimore and surrounding counties you have only a limited amount of time to shovel your sidewalk before you may be fined.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday unanimously confirmed Rhoda Benjamin as director of human resources.

There is a lot of promise for Baltimore and the state from Opportunity Zones, but there are challenges remain, experts on a panel said Monday.

Chris Ryer has become well known in planning circles in the last three decades, having served several stints in government. T

If the state and governor are serious about making Opportunity Zones work in Maryland and incentivizing the reuse of our existing structures, we also must make increased funding for the historic tax credit a priority.

Local legislators discuss their priorities for 2019.

Don't disparage public housing by referring to developments as 'projects.'

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced on Wednesday several new members of his leadership team — including naming former Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith as press secretary.

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City says it has reduced the rat population at its public housing complexes by 82 percent in the past year. Some residents say they don't see a difference. The $300,000 campaign to eliminate the vermin will continue at least through the summer.

Baltimore County schools totally bungled its student technology program.

A father-son builder-architect team is putting up eight prefab, or modular, homes in East Baltimore Midway in hopes of boosting the neighborhood.

The Maryland Multi-Housing Association says the city is making a good faith effort to develop the right standards for rental housing inspections.

The Baltimore City Council's mandate that residential rental properties must pass a basic health and safety inspection is a case study of a good idea gone wrong.

The nonprofit Baltimore National Heritage Area entered into a lease agreement with the City of Baltimore “to assume stewardship" of H.L. Mencken's longtime home on Hollins Street in West Baltimore.

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City was awarded a $1.3 million federal grant to develop a comprehensive neighborhood plan to revitalize the Poppleton-Hollins area, with an overhaul of the distressed Poe Homes at the center.

Baltimore is scrambling to find modest support for affordable housing while a costly downtown apartment building opens it doors.

When the last stretch of the Baltimore Metro was built, the deed for the tunnel was lost in transit. Nearly 30 years later, the city discovered the mistake.

Ben Carson grew up in public housing, received government assistance, and devoted his career as a surgeon to the people of Baltimore.  Now the agency he runs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is proposing divisive cuts from the top down on the people who need it the most.

A investigator at the Baltimore housing department has been charged with tapping into the state drivers license database and another computer system for personal reasons.

State officials have selected 149 communities around the state to be nominated as "Opportunity Zones" under the new federal tax law passed by Republicans last year. The designation is designed to draw capital to struggling neighborhoods by giving investors big tax breaks.

The Baltimore housing department issued a $464,000 penalty to the owner of a former St. Vincent's Orphanage Asylum in West Baltimore, alleging that the historic building was demolished without permission.

As visitors from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka stood in a circle Wednesday in a clothing boutique in historic Ellicott City, they looked to shop owner Tammy Beideman for advice on surviving a natural disaster.

The Baltimore City Council on Monday gave preliminary approval to a bill requiring licensing and inspecting all rental housing units in the city. 

Baltimore Housing officials next month plan to ask for a city subsidy of between $50 million and $100 million to help redevelop a wide swath of East Baltimore, including an overhaul of the Perkins Homes public housing complex.

A new audit of how the city manages millions of dollars in state and federal grants has come to the same conclusion that previous examinations have: grant money coming into government coffers is not balancing out with what city agencies are spending.