Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods have long struggled with a lack of decent housing and thousands of abandoned homes. Things recently took a turn for the worse: Five vacant houses in the city ...

Still, with nearly 15,000 abandoned properties blighting ... echoes the spirit of Baltimore’s historic “dollar house” program of the 1970s, which saw homesteaders revitalizing communities ...

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 ...

he ducked into an alley near downtown Baltimore, where an abandoned house had a “For Sale” sign on it. The back door was open, so he let himself in and went to sleep. There was gas and ...

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 ...

This year, Room & Board began selling furniture made from Southern yellow pine and Douglas fir ripped out of century-old abandoned row homes in some of Baltimore’s more violence-plagued ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE – Red reflective diamonds dot the exteriors of crumbling, burned and boarded up row homes in Charm City, marking them unsafe. The thousands of abandoned properties cost the city more ...

“We were like: ‘This house is insane. How is this just sitting here and completely abandoned like this?'” Sansivero said. Despite the dilapidated condition, including peeling walls and an ...

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.’ ...

These "homes are structurally sound and just need a little love, and vision, to bring them back to life." The program is part of a larger Kansas City effort to deal with dangerous, abandoned ...

An aerial of Baltimore. Christopher Boswell – stock.adobe.com Abandoned row houses in Baltimore. jonbilous – stock.adobe.com Baltimore boasts one of the highest crime rates in the United States.