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Governor Wes Moore announced Thursday that $50 million will go to the Baltimore Vacants Reinvestment Initiative Program, a ...
In Baltimore, Hopes Of Turning Abandoned Properties Into Affordable Homes The city has long suffered a dearth of decent housing. The recent collapse of vacant buildings — which in one case ...
Still, with nearly 15,000 abandoned properties blighting Baltimore’s landscape as of 2022, according to city records, the road to urban renewal remains long and arduous. 3 An aerial of Baltimore.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY brick rowhouses on McKean Avenue, a once humming, now rather desolate street in west Baltimore where many homes have been demolished or abandoned, can be had for as little as ...
In a bid to breathe life back into its beleaguered neighborhoods, Baltimore is selling boarded-up homes for a mere dollar each.
Despite demolition crews working at an unprecedented pace in recent months to tear down Baltimore’s vacant houses, the number of abandoned buildings in the city has barely budged. Even as long ...
Baltimore (55.8 homicides per 100,000 residents) has roughly 16,000 abandoned structures. Cook County, which includes Chicago (24 homicides per 100,000), has an estimated 55,000 abandoned buildings.
Adam Schneider, of the Baltimore group Health Care for the Homeless, estimates that 25,000 people are in homes through the Section 8 program, and 25,000 more need the vouchers.
Parity is buying abandoned houses in West Baltimore, rebuilding them, and then offering them to people making $60,000 or less a year. Bree Jones started thinking about new solutions for affordable ...
Not so the abandoned, decaying buildings described in the Nov. 29 Metro article about Baltimore’s “ghost homes,” “Baltimore turns to foreclosure plan to solve ‘ghost homes.’ ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A program in Kansas City, Missouri, that sold off dozens of eyesore houses for just a dollar last year hopes buyers are willing to pay a bit more for another batch of ...
Vines crept up the house. It looked as if it were about to cave in. The Colonial in Roscoe, New York, a hamlet of the Catskills, was decrepit — which made it all the more appealing to Bryan ...