Deconstructing Vacants

The 2200 block of Callow Avenue in Reservoir Hill has been described as the hole in the doughnut of redevelopment in that West Baltimore neighborhood.…

There is a house on Stonewood Road in the New Northwood neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore that is clearly falling apart.The rain gutters are hanging on…

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Vacants to Value Initiative aims to reduce the blight of vacant houses in the city by giving people incentives to buy…

Seventeen people are hard at work at a job site in the 2300 and 2400 blocks of E. Eager Street in Milton-Montford. The site is right next to the Amtrak…

For nearly two decades, Maryland law has allowed community associations to sue the owners of blighted properties to force repairs. But it wasn’t until…

North Avenue, possibly the longest, straightest east-west street in Baltimore, provides a snapshot of how urban blight affects the city.Once a bustling…

Community advocates are looking at attacking two of Baltimore’s biggest problems – 16,000 vacant houses that blight blocks of the city and the need for…

The first impression train travelers from the north get of Baltimore isn’t a very good one.And that makes potential investors leery of the city.The train…