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Hallie Miller

Hallie

Hallie Miller covers housing in the Baltimore region and beyond for The Baltimore Banner. She previously reported on city and regional services for The Banner’s Better Baltimore series. Hallie is a Baltimore native who spent four years at The Baltimore Sun, where she helped lead the paper's medical coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. She is eager to hear your ideas.

The latest from Hallie Miller

Baltimore’s proposed tax cut could come at a cost — like a new trash fee
Cutting Baltimore City property tax rates would come at a cost — about $120 million annually.
Trash cans on North Chester Street are set out for pickup in the afternoon of Thursday, August 29, 2024.
A troubled New York investor started to flip a Baltimore community. Then he died.
Before his death, Mendel Steiner was fighting off a receivership petition at two Baltimore apartment complexes.
The Dutch Village apartment complex was home to as many as 120 students at Yorkwood Elementary School last year.
A Baltimore housing program is leading the nation in a key metric
A Cityscape paper found the Baltimore area is bucking a national trend.
West Baltimore housing
Poll: Marylanders prefer voting at countywide hubs to neighborhood precincts
A Washington Post-UMD poll found support for establishing countywide voting centers.
A majority of voters prefer more county-wide voting hubs to casting their ballots at neighborhood schools, churches or community centers.
‘Scale and speed’: State wants to fast-track redeveloping Baltimore’s vacants
$50 million will start hitting the streets July 1, Maryland’s housing secretary said.
Mayor Brandon Scott speaks outside of vacant homes on West Saratoga street during a press conference hosted by Build One Baltimore on February 16, 2023.
The last-ditch effort to salvage a statewide housing bill
If it passes, the bill would require Maryland's housing agency to post public housing targets on its website and publish an annual report assessing the progress.
Lawmakers have rewritten a housing bill proposed by Gov. Wes Moore so that it will now set housing targets in each county and Baltimore.
Greenleigh, in Baltimore County, could offer a way out of the housing crisis
Greenleigh’s residential housing success story could offer a blueprint for the rest of the state during a national housing crisis.
Asa Johnson Sr. sits on the front steps of his home in the Greenleigh development in Middle River.
A Baltimore developer’s private jet transfer has infuriated its creditors
A construction arm of Chasen Cos. now faces petition for forced bankruptcy
Creditors are seeking involuntary bankruptcy for a construction arm of the company, after a private jet transfer.
Baltimore’s population grew last year, but maybe hold off on the victory lap
Baltimore’s population gains may be linked to broad economic factors outside the city’s control.
Karol Martinez, left, and Jacque Gbalipre with their pets Mabel and Che in their home in Baltimore. The couple bought the Barclay home in December of last year.
Black Baltimore-area neighborhoods face racial bias in home appraisals, report finds
A new report found a presence of racial bias disadvantaging nonwhite neighborhoods in the Baltimore area.
Rowhomes line the street on Fairmount Avenue. An Abell Foundation study found homes in Black neighborhoods were more likely to be appraised for less than the homes’ contract sales prices.
Chasen Cos. entity files for bankruptcy ahead of auction for Fells Point building
The entity, CC 1400 Aliceanna Street LLC, filed for bankruptcy Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Maryland.
A development project that Chasen Cos. named The Anne on Aliceanna, on the border of Fells Point and Harbor East.
A coalition is trying to get Baltimore’s biggest nonprofits to pay the city more
Advocates are backing a City Council bill that would create a task force to help renegotiate Baltimore's PILOT with nonprofits.
1199SEIU Senior Policy Analyst Loraine Arikat speaks during a 2023 kickoff event for With Us for Us, a coalition seeking to increase what nonprofits pay the city each year for services.
Reisterstown Road Plaza ‘died’ long ago. A new team wants to bring it back
“Everyone has a plaza story,” one of the developers said. “And we want to bring that back.”
Small businesses at Reisterstown Road Plaza in February.
Welcome to Baltimore’s newest ghost town. Trump cuts might keep it empty.
Redevelopment of Poe Homes in West Baltimore, and other distressed communities across the region, could slow if federal housing grants and programs end.
The city housing authority has moved out almost all 288 households of Poe Homes in preparation for demolition and redevelopment.
Arrest made in fatal Columbia double shooting; teen victim identified
Police arrested an 18-year-old in connection with Saturday’s double shooting in Columbia.
A still from a livestream by Howard County Police as Chief Gregory Der updated the media on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2025, about a double shooting that left one teen dead and another in critical condition.
Will Maryland expand tenant protections in a tight housing market?
A challenging economy may imperil a popular tenant rights bill from passing.
Mary Theresa Weil, 77, walks past the Christ Church Harbor Apartments on Light Street where she has lived happily for eight years. Last summer she accidentally left a battery pack out on a balcony in the heat and a small fire caused some damage. Now, the building won’t renew her lease.
Anne Arundel County ‘cyber incident’ disrupts services, forces closure of county buildings
The county is the latest in a string of state entities to have experienced cybersecurity breaches over the past few years.
Maryland police mourn former Ocean City officers killed in Pennsylvania, Virginia shootings
Two officers killed in separate incidents in Virginia Beach and Pennsylvania over the weekend started their careers with the Ocean City Police Department.
Officers Andrew Duarte, left, and Cameron Girvin started their careers with the Ocean City Police Department. Both were killed in unrelated incidents in York County, Pa., and Virginia Beach, Va., respectively.
Former Baltimore City employee who took bribes to wipe tax liens gets 4 years in prison
Joseph Gillespie’s attorneys asked for two years, but the request was denied by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett, who expressed extreme disappointment with Gillespie’s conduct.
Exterior of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore on Wednesday, November 13, 2024.
Poll: Maryland voters cite housing as top concern
Two polls in the last month found housing was the top concern.
A new housing complex in Bowie.
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