Vacant Housing

Councilwoman Odette Ramos (D., Dist 14) says her Land Bank bill will help the city acquire and redevelop its abandoned housing. Bree Jones' Parity Homes is already doing that. Both women join us with perspectives on how to rescue Baltimore's lost neighborhoods.

New legislation will make it easier to do something about vacant residential properties, officials say.

Two council members are proposing a land bank as a way to address the tens of thousands of vacant properties in Baltimore city.

Two members of the community action group join us with details of their strategy for fixing one of Baltimore's most intractable problems.

BUILD, which stands for Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development, has released a report analyzing the scale of blight across Baltimore City and calls for an enormous investment to wipe out the city’s long standing vacancy problem.

Baltimore City's annual tax sale, designed to collect unpaid bills from delinquent city homeowners - is the focus of a Baltimore Banner investigation. We get three perspectives on tax sale problems, and possible solutions.

Baltimore Banner investigative reporter Justin Fenton, and WYPR's Baltimore County and environment reporter John Lee and education reporter Zshekinah Collier discuss some of the top news stories they've been filing.

Baltimore City is using a special type of foreclosure process to tackle vacant housing issues but it's a difficult task.

We talk with the co-authors of a new report on the true societal costs of Baltimore's vacant housing. Plus, what's up with Adopt-a-Lot?

After a deadly fire this year the city has demolished more than 100 properties so far.