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Baltimore Free Farm, a Hampden-based organization that does urban farming and community gardening, has been running community gardens on Ash Street in Hampden, but now, the city wants to sell two of the lots that the group uses. Baltimore Free Farm iscomplaining about the sale, but has also put in a bid to buy those lots.

After more than a decade of cajoling, legal wrangling and building, the residences at Uplands, the $238 million residential community in Southwest Baltimore, are coming to life.

Claims that Section 8 is a landlord's nightmare just aren't true

Frances M. Finney, who overcame poverty, earned a college degree, and became a city school teacher, died April 19 from heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 82.

Children in poor Baltimore neighborhoods can get free meals this summer through an extension of the National School Lunch Program, city officials said Wednesday.

Low income residents in Baltimore and across the nation already have trouble finding a place to live; federal tax reform could make the problem worse.

One month after across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration began there are signs the impact on the economy — even in a state such as Maryland with strong ties to the federal government — might not be as severe as initially feared.

Ras-a-ter, a reggae and hip-hop club, has been the scene of two shootings involving seven victims over 14 months

The $113.5 million that Exelon Corp. agreed to make available for innovative projects — a condition of regulatory approval for its purchase of Constellation Energy — was awarded Thursday to groups planning to help low-income customers, small businesses and others decrease their energy bills.

A 41-year-old Washington woman was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for her role in conspiring to steal $1.4 million from the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, prosecutors said.

A group of local housing advocates have put together the necessary documents to present to the County Council for recognition as the nonprofit that will provide affordable housing in downtown Columbia.

Baltimore's Department of Housing and Community Development has decided to waive the affordable-housing requirement for the Lexington Square "Superblock" development.

Fair housing settlement. AFL-CIO, HUD, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

The death of a woman whose decomposing body was found inside a Charles Village apartment has been ruled a homicide by asphyxiation, police said.

Baltimore's public housing agency announced Monday it has paid $3.7 million to a former public housing resident who suffered lead-paint poisoning as a young child during the 1980s, but it does nothing to resolve the larger issue of unpaid judgments troubling the agency.