State and Local GovernmentBill BallardThe City of Baltimore, along with other East Coast cities, faces significant challenges in the changing state of its housing stock. Currently, nearly 15,000 vacant abandoned buildings exist in the City. These vacant houses breed crime and trash and diminish ...
Begin issuing non-contiguous TIF Bonds: The City will issue non-contiguous TIF bonds in tranches using vacant houses across the City. If successful, these TIFs are expected to generate at least $150 million over 15 years. This “Uptown TIF” will be the first time that a TIF has been us...
He stated that the story normally told to explain the high number of vacant houses, one of residents losing their jobs and moving away after World War II, does not seek to hold anyone responsible for the current state of the city, as well as the inequitable concentration of vacant buildi...
From the inside out, democracy was happening at the corner of Presstman and Payson streets. Candidate after candidate highlighted issues, from homicides and carjackings to the need to clean up our neighborhoods and eliminate vacant houses. But for former Baltimore City Public Schools Teacher...
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Under the settlement with MDE, CSX was also required to fund a community-led energy-efficient rehabilitation of a vacant building to be used as an environmental research, education and training center for the community. At the hearing, CSX representative Brian Hammock talked about ongoing efforts ...
“If you didn’t know, you would think that everyone was impoverished and uneducated, and it was a neighborhood full of rentals,” she said), but she acknowledged that vacant lots, empty buildings and decaying structures are holding the neighborhood back. While some peoplequestion what good ...
If you’ve followed the news this last year, there’s a real crisis in the city when it comes to artists finding space they can afford. So, we see this as an urgent project. In addition to the added space, the new rowhouses will include room for an artist residency, which we...
On July 13, three vacant houses located on Eaddy’s block, dating back to the 1840s that the group was hoping to save, weredemolished. Sonia Eaddy stands in front of the historic houses on her block moments after the city knocked them down last week. (Fern Shen) ...
Broadway. The City of Baltimore helped to arrange a loan for the down payment and funds to rehabilitate the historic structure. Members of the church organized fundraising efforts to pay back the loan. On June 11, 1978, they lined up at a vacant lot at the corner of N. Ann and E. ...