housing and urban planning

• Opinion

Housing should not be left to chance

Dystopian novelists — from Orwell to Bradbury to Collins — consistently sound intellectual alarm bells about the future of our democracy unless policies and practices change. A lottery for housing for poor people should do exactly the same. Rather than making it the stuff of popular culture, let's work toward the development of a true comprehensive housing policy — one based on actual human need and not blind luck.

• Opinion

City's tax sale foreclosure process must be reformed

Reforms urged to city's tax sale foreclosure process

• Commuting

Good Morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Tuesday

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail: Silo Points

• Fires

10 displaced in Eastport apartment fire

An Eastport apartment fire displaced 10 people and sent another to the hospital early Saturday morning.

By John-John Williams IV

Oct 18, 2014

• Baltimore City Paper

High Stakes

• Opinion

Bill Clinton, Anthony Brown and the 'let them eat cake' Democrats [Letter]

Bill Clinton shows Democrats' hypocrisy at the Anthony Brown fundraiser.

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Scandal

• Baltimore City Paper

Judge dismisses landlord's suit against housing blogger

• Opinion

Scotland's future hangs in balance [Commentary]

Scottish independence would further weaken what remains of Britain's once great empire and could also seriously weaken Scotland.

• Howard County

Democrats' site criticizes Kittleman's record on education, other topics

As the school season begins, state Sen. Allan Kittleman, the Republicans' candidate for county executive, is under attack for his views on education and a host of other topics.

• Harford

Harford Family House marks 25 years of serving homeless families

For a quarter of a century, homeless families in Harford County have had one main address to turn to: Harford Family House.

• Opinion

Rescuing the children who come after McKenzie [Letter]

Rescuing the children who come after McKenzie

• Opinion

'The poor door' -- symbol of a truth we all know [Commentary]

Leonard Pitts Jr. takes on a NYC developer, who plans to add a separate entrance to an apartment building for residents of modest means.

• Trials and Arbitration

Judge finds Harborview board in contempt of maintenance order

A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge has ruled that the Harborview condo association must pay the owner of one of the tower's penthouses more than $15,500 each month for failing to complete maintenance within a court-ordered deadline.

• Anne Arundel

Thwarted by mayor, Snowden finds new gig with housing board

The Annapolis housing authority created a new position for Carl O. Snowden, whom the city's mayor decided not to reappoint to the authority's board.

• Howard County

Howard Co. Housing Commission to buy Columbia Commons

The Howard County Housing Commission plans to purchase a 200-unit mixed-income residential apartment complex in Columbia's village of Kings Contrivance, according to the commission's top official.

• Anne Arundel

Snowden to lose seat on Annapolis housing board

The mayor of Annapolis will not reappoint civil rights activist Carl O. Snowden to the board that oversees public housing communities in the city.

• Baltimore City Paper

Putting the art back in street art

• Anne Arundel

Community leader convicted of theft from Severn condo association

A Severn woman once honored for her community leadership pleaded guilty Thursday to misusing nearly $74,000 of her community association's money.

• Harford

Why zoning appeals authority is key [letter to The Aegis]

To eliminate the Council as Zoning Appeals Board is to diminish not only the Council's authority, but also the voice of the sovereign people.

• Opinion

Baltimore endorsements [Editorial]

The Sun makes endorsements in several additional races in Baltimore City.

• Harford

Proposal to remove Harford council as zoning appeals board dies Tuesday

The Harford County Council seemed to bow to public outcry Tuesday night, failing to move on a charter amendment removing itself as the zoning appeals board.

• Baltimore City Paper

45th Legislative District

• Baltimore City Paper

43rd Legislative District

• Social Issues

City set to clear homeless encampments along Fallsway, under I-83

Standing outside his tent pitched on the sidewalk by a defunct downtown diner on Thursday, Jimmy Steward III wonders where he'll sleep after city officials force him to leave this morning.

• Baltimore City

Residents, union workers protest sale of public housing

On Wednesday, 60 public housing residents and union workers stood outside the Housing Authority of Baltimore City to urge it to halt a plan to sell housing to private developers.

• Baltimore City Paper

The Money Game: the latest campaign-finance figures in Baltimore's legislative district races

• Baltimore City Paper

Primer on the Federal Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

• Baltimore City Paper

The Sun's Credulous Take on Stanley Rochkind

• Baltimore City Paper

I.G. Out

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore’s Public Housing Worse Than We Thought?

• Baltimore City Paper

Drug Treatment Zoned Out?

• Baltimore City Paper

X-Content: Ten years ago in City Paper: Sept. 4, 2002

• Baltimore City Paper

New data: Vacants up 43% over 10 years, doubled in many neighborhoods

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore, Where’s the Recovery Money?

• Baltimore City Paper

Bankenstein Lives!

• Baltimore City Paper

Lawsuits follow Wall Hunters Project

• Baltimore City Paper

Beans and Bread Delayed Again

• Baltimore City Paper

Legislators Urge Rawlings-Blake to Get the Lead Out

• Real Estate

City celebrates new units in O'Donnell Heights

The roofs in the new development in Southeast Baltimore aren't all finished, and city officials aren't quite sure what to call it, but they turned out in force on Wednesday to celebrate the first apartments completed on land that once held the sprawling O'Donnell Heights public housing complex.

• Baltimore City

Zoning board approves variance for new Springwell building

The Baltimore City zoning board Tuesday approved a variance for Springwell Senior Living to double its footprint in Mount Washington.

• Obituaries

Beatrice A. Schwartz, real estate broker

Beatrice A. Schwartz, a retired real estate broker and volunteer, died May 22 of complications of dementia at Milford Manor Nursing Home. She was 96.

• Opinion

Questions for the candidates [Editorial]

This week's debates offer the last chance for Maryland's gubernatorial contenders to press each other for answers; here's what we'd like them to ask.

• Harford

Two Democrats, three Republicans run for Harford Council president

With five candidates lined up for the race to be the next president of the Harford County Council, county voters will get to narrow down that field in the upcoming primary election.

• Baltimore City Paper

Tenant Council President Fights The Power

• Baltimore City Paper

Real News Network plants roots-and tackles the "media desert"- in Baltimore

• Obituaries

Jerry R. Engelman, real estate broker

Jerry R. Engelman, a retired real estate broker who specialized in ground rents, died May 8 of heart failure at his Pikesville home. He was 70.

• Opinion

Preventing pedestrian injuries [Letter]

Preventing pedestrian injuries

• Hospitals and Clinics

Britain's NHS is a lesson for America's VA

Some privatization may be key to resolving long-standing faults in Veterans Administration health care.