which had been converted into apartments and was vacant, was torn down in February. The city’s Department of Housing and Community Development launched an investigation
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- It's a day full of neighbors helping neighbors. Baltimore City's Comprehensive Housing Assistance Program launches a community cleanup program. AsTim Williamsshows us, even the smallest hands can help. Green-shirted volunteers and community members coming out to help their neig...
Currently, nearly 15,000 vacant abandoned buildings exist in the City. These vacant houses breed crime and trash and diminish the value of homes in the community. In early 2002, Mayor Martin O'Malley launched his Project 5000 Property Acquisition Initiative challenging the City housing department ...
Baltimore City’s Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will lead this work. DHCD is in the process of implementing aCommunity Development Frameworkwith a “whole block” approach since the beginning of the Scott Administration. Now, it’s time to scale up our investment, so ...
Governor Larry Hogan today joined Baltimore City Mayor Catherine E. Pugh; Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young; Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Kenneth C. Holt; Dr. Donte L. Hickman, Sr., Pastor of Southern Baptist Church; and Baltimore...
In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) had to suddenly close its headquarters to comply with the state government’s stay-at-home orders. The agency immediately required new remote work solutions. Digicon was brought in as...
The use of TIFs is coordinated by either the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development (BDC) or the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC). Nearly all of the TIF districts established over the past 20 years are in communities that have experienced population growth. Some exceptions...
In May 2018, under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development (the “City”) and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (the “Department”), the Maryland Stadium Authority (the “MSA”) ...
"This has become normalized in our communities in East and West Baltimore, and this is a time where the council, as well as the administration, is saying enough is enough," Mosby said. City can take control Ramos has been a staunch advocate of creating a vacant housing poli...
Can you see this process becoming a development model for other rehabs throughout the city and beyond? N: Modeling healthy, high-quality housing for our community and neighborhood is a major motivation for working with passive buildings. Many Baltimore artists and also many Midway residents d...