housing and urban planning

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.

Reforms urged to city's tax sale foreclosure process

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

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

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

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.

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

Rescuing the children who come after McKenzie

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Preventing pedestrian injuries

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