housing and urban planning

Graziano says agency has spent "only $6.3 million" since 2003 on outside lawyers

Grassley looking into "possible conflicts of interest, fraud, waste and abuse" of tax dollars

Newspaper is wrong to call for Baltimore housing commissioner to be fired

Council president says thousands of homes being sold at auction

Baltimore Housing Authority's refusal to pay lead paint judgments is reason enough for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to fire Commissioner Paul Graziano; she also needs to become more publicly engaged in the effort to find a way to provide just compensation for victims.

Three people have been found dead after as many as 10 city homes burned early Thursday in Southwest Baltimore.

The Sun's reporting on the legal costs associated with the Baltimore lead paint lawsuits is poor journalism

Only eight individuals testified at the Howard County Charter Review Commission's first two public hearings Wednesday, Sept. 14, and Tuesday, Sept. 20, speaking to changes that should be made in the document that outlines rights of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of county government.

Towson law firm bills nearly $6,000 just for travel time in May and June

Legends Vineyard says it needs room to grow business

Wells Fargo's takeover of Baltimore's Wachovia branches follows its disastrous and discriminatory loan practices during the housing bubble, which led to foreclosures and abandoned property.

The number of Maryland homeowners who are behind on their mortgages still is falling, but the pace of that decline has slowed as rising unemployment puts more pressure on borrowers, numbers released Monday show.

Baltimore housing authority says someone is handing out fake fliers saying the city has Section 8 housing available.

Baltimore County Democrat urges mayor not "to discard" poisoning victims

Former Del. Kenneth L. Webster, author of the legislation that made Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a state holiday, died Friday of kidney failure at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. He was 76.

Former Del. Kenneth L. Webster, author of the legislation that made Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a state holiday, died Friday of kidney failure at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. He was 76.

Those vying to be Baltimore's next mayor fielded questions from a unexpected group Wednesday evening: high school students.

Graziano dodged two political bullets on his way to becoming city's longest-serving housing chief

At a fundraiser, most residents and elected officials give Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker III a good grade; a few have a wait-and-see attitude.

The Howard County Zoning Board Wednesday, July 20, voted unanimously to approve the preliminary site plan for a proposed mixed-use community on Rogers Avenue near Route 40 in Ellicott City, praising it for fostering connectivity in the historic area.

A broad swath of workers in the Baltimore region — including those landing jobs in the sector doing the most hiring these days — don't earn enough to afford a home or even to rent a two-bedroom apartment on their salaries alone.

John R. Burleigh 2d, a civil rights activist who had been chairman of the employment committee of the Congress of Racial Equality, died July 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Hunting Ridge resident was 86.

John R. Burleigh 2d., a civil rights activist who had been chairman of the employment committee of the Congress of Racial Equality, died July 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Hunting Ridge resident was 86.

A federal grand jury has indicted a pair of Washington men who tried to steal $1.4 million from the city's public housing authority by electronically transferring funds to a non-existent business, according to authorities.

The chairman of a Baltimore City Council committee says he will ask federal officials to push Baltimore's public housing agency to pay a six-figure judgment for lead-paint poisoning.

Challengers to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Tuesday seized on the Fourth of July violence, saying the incidents highlighted persistent problems that foster a culture of violent crime.

City's planned $8 million facility will increased dependence, fails to solve long-term problem

Private contractor calls $500,000 per house rehab costs "insane"

Where a student lives has as great an impact on achievement as the school he or she attends; housing subsidies could help thousands more city and county youngsters succeed academically

Erik Bandzak has launched what amounts to Baltimore's first winery. In two months, the wines of Aliceanna Winery could be the latest entry into Maryland's burgeoning local wine scene.

The Baltimore City Council wants officials of the Housing Authority and other agencies to explain what's being done about paying judgments of nearly $12 million in nine lawsuits brought by people who were poisoned by lead paint in public housing.

The Maryland Senate directed Baltimore's public housing authority Friday to explain how it will pay nearly $12 million it owes in court judgments to residents poisoned by lead paint.

Rawlings-Blake echoes housing authority's claim that it cannot afford to pay

Housing Authority of Baltimore City says paying claims and potential claims could exceed $800 million, threaten authority's solvency