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Housing

    Christina Cikins and her partner David Edge sit on their bed in Baltimore, MD on Jan. 29, 2025. Cikins and Edge are facing homelessness after receiving an unexpected eviction notice.
    How bad is Maryland’s housing affordability crisis? Ask this Baltimore couple.
    The U.S. lacks about 7.3 million homes for renters with extremely low incomes, according to estimates from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
    Annapolis housing authority CEO and executive director Melissa Maddox Evans, flanked by state housing officials, lawmakers and elected leaderes, said she hoped to re-open shuttered public housing units within 12 months. Photographed on Monday, February 10, 2025.
    Annapolis housing authority to receive $3 million bailout to confront ‘financial crisis’
    Leaders of the agency and across the state said they hoped the money would help set the housing authority on the right course.
    Passengers, reflected in a platform mirror, wait for their light rail to arrive at the Lutherville station in Lutherville, Md. on Monday, February 3, 2025.
    Lutherville Station developer says he’s ‘not going anywhere’
    The owner of the commercial shopping center next to the Lutherville light rail stop is pledging to continue to work to add housing there, despite intense community opposition and resistance from the County Council.
    Chasen Cos. is facing foreclosure on a trio of lots in Fells Point.
    Chasen Cos. faces foreclosure in Fells Point over alleged bank loan default
    Chasen Cos., a Baltimore development firm faces new legal trouble after a bank alleged it defaulted on a nearly $14 million loan for properties in Fells Point.
    Belair-Edison is one of the city's "hot" neighborhoods, according to Live Baltimore's annual housing report.
    Baltimore pitched as affordable answer in costly housing region
    Baltimore’s median home price is up, but it still pales in comparison to the city suburbs.

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    Baltimore County's rats have settled in comfortably, spreading themselves across a wide diversity of terrains.
    Baltimore County’s got rats, too, but code enforcement is on their tails
    The push for county pest control began in 2016, when East Side residents flooded council chambers to ask for help reducing their rodents.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 24: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press as he prepares to depart the White House aboard Marine One on January 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. The president is traveling to North Carolina, California, Nevada and Florida over the weekend.
    What we know about Trump’s federal spending freeze and its impact on Marylanders
    What we know about President Donald Trump’s temporary pause on federal spending and its impact on Marylanders.
    Luxury apartment buildings, such as a high-rise in Harbor Point, have faced challenges in finding renters.
    Baltimore keeps building luxury apartments as some units sit empty
    About one-tenth of the 4- and 5-star apartments in the Baltimore region are empty, according to data from the real estate analytics firm CoStar.
    How to make your house generate cash
    Your house can become a source of cash. From leasing closets and yards to providing event parking, here's how.
    An eco-village is expected to fill the “Tivoly Triangle” in Northeast Baltimore, a long-stalled redevelopment project.
    Northeast Baltimore ‘eco-village’ wants to create new neighborhood model
    The site would include large and small single-family homes but also duplexes at prices that are “financially accessible” to aspiring homeowners, project managers said.

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    Tents and personal items in an alley in Mount Vernon, Baltimore, on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. Baltimore activated its cold weather winter shelter initiative on Friday in response to the frigid weather. The designation, which will not expire until Thursday, expands the city’s shelter options for the homeless.
    After more than 3 decades, Homeless Persons Representation Project to close
    The free legal services and advocacy group will dissolve by the end of the quarter.
    Curved, white arches stand over a sign that reads "Columbia Gateway: A Corporate Community"
    Amazon didn’t want Columbia Gateway, so Howard County has a new people-friendly plan
    Howard County planners and consultants presented their preferred plan for redeveloping Columbia Gateway, the business park that Amazon passed over for its East Coast headquarters in 2018.
    Photo collage of Baltimore row house in front of stack of hundred dollar bills and blurry image of Baltimore City hall in far background.
    City employee who took bribes had been flagged years before, records show
    Concerns about Joseph Gillespie went unchecked many years ago, a city employee said.
    Rockland Run resident Diana Evans looks up at the damaged ceiling above her bed. She has had to deal with water coming through the ceiling in her first floor condo multiple times in the past couple of years.
    Baltimore County seeks relief for strapped condo, townhouse associations
    Maryland makes homeowner associations collect funds for maintenance. Baltimore County’s councilmen say it’s too much.
    Angela Coleman, president and founder of Sisterhood Agenda, poses for a portrait on the property she aims to transform into housing in Middle River, Maryland, on Aug. 22, 2024.
    HUD investigating Baltimore County housing discrimination complaint
    Angela D. Coleman wants to build eco-friendly duplexes at affordable prices for renters. She planned 22 units for a development in Middle River.

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    President Jimmy Carter at a press conference in 1977.
    Larry Gibson: Jimmy Carter’s service offers much to be admired, honored
    The U.S. and the world continue to benefit from Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments as president and the humanitarian work he pursued after leaving office, University of Maryland Law professor Larry S. Gibson says.
    A rendering of the Goucher College campus with the yet-to-be-built University Residence Community towers from Edenwald Senior Living on the right side.
    Goucher College to embrace ‘co-generational environment’ with retirement community
    Edenwald Senior Living, in Towson, plans to add 127 new units in three apartment towers that will be built on land leased from Goucher College on its campus.
    American politician Jimmy Carter, wearing a black blazer over a shirt and tie, during his 1976 presidential campaign, Virginia, United States, 1976.
    Robert Embry Jr.: Jimmy Carter’s policies helped revitalize Baltimore
    Jimmy Carter’s policies and priorities as president set revitalization in motion in Baltimore and other cities that needed it, Abell Foundation President Robert Embry Jr. says.
    This is a picture of the Residence Inn Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus
    Chinese nationals say Baltimore developer ‘duped’ them into $47M boondoggle
    A lawsuit filed this month in Baltimore Circuit Court says developer Ron Lipscomb lured Chinese investors seeking U.S. citizenship for a hotel project in East Baltimore that had wildly inflated construction costs.
    Bonita Anderson is interviewed inside her home in Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, December 11, 2024. Anderson is one of many Baltimore residents at risk of losing their homes due to tax sale because of city errors.
    After losing her home, Baltimore woman joins federal lawsuit challenging tax sale
    Filed this past July, the lawsuit argues that the tax sale system in Baltimore is unconstitutional.