On Thursday, Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration announced financing to help developers build hundreds of low-income apartments in Baltimore suburbs that have traditionally resisted housing the poor.
Tag: affordable housing
State awards $23 million in financing to develop low-income housing in Baltimore’s suburbs and downtown
Thursday Morning Headlines: Last Night’s Snow Causes Problems for Schools Today; Baltimore’s Best Music of 2017; and More
Tuition-Free Education Offered at Baltimore City Community College — Fox45
Best Music of 2017 — Baltimore magazine
Mayor approves $10 million for affordable housing — Baltimore Brew
Icy roads cause school, business delays statewide — ABC2
Activist DeRay Mckesson sues Fox News, media personality Jeanine Pirro for defamation — Baltimore Sun
Friday Morning Headlines: Teens Blamed for Recent Harbor Crime Wave; Company Plans to Redevelop Former Garmet Factory in Highlandtown; and More
Teen attacks unnerving downtown Baltimore visitors — ABC2
Baltimore Community Mediation Center joins team to oversee police reform — Baltimore Sun
Pugh says, “I share the vision of the 20/20 plan” — Baltimore Brew
Barcoding Inc. plans to redevelop former Highlandtown garment factory — Technical.ly
Mount St. Joseph’s Jalen Smith Among Three Terps Basketball Signees — PressBox
68 Affordable Apartments Open in the Bromo Tower Arts District
Downtown Baltimore gained a new affordable housing development today when Mayor Catherine Pugh and others cut the ribbon on the Mulberry at Park Apartments, a $22.3 million, 68-unit project in the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District.
It’s Official: Ben Carson Has a Job in Trump’s Cabinet
A little over a year ago, a real estate mogul and a retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon with zero combined years of experience in office were sitting neck-and-neck atop Republican primary polls. Today, one of those men, Donald Trump, is starting to set up shop in the Oval Office and has picked the other, Ben Carson, to lead our nation’s housing department.
City-Zen: Meet Toni – Lover of Elephant Sculptures (and Bacon)
Welcome to City-Zen: Real Conversations with Real Baltimoreans, a question and answer series with locals sharing their thoughts on issues that are top-of-mind to many. Whether just starting out, raising a family, struggling to get by, or at the top of your game, we all have something in common. It’s easier to communicate once we understand the perspective of others.
Vacants to Value is Back
After running out of money earlier this year to assist homebuyers, Baltimore’s Vacants to Value Booster Program is back.
Thank God for Baltimore Real Estate Prices
Be glad you don’t live in San Francisco or Brooklyn. Recent real estate number-crunching revealed that Brooklyn is the least affordable housing market in the country, with residents earning median income needing to devote 98 percent (!!) of their income to afford mortgage payments on a median-priced home. That doesn’t leave much left over for groceries or, well, anything else.
Housing Spending Affects Kids’ Smarts, Johns Hopkins Study Says
Affordable housing isn’t just good for cities, new research from Johns Hopkins says–it’s also good for children’s brains. According to Sandra Newman, a professor of policy studies, families that spend more than 50% of their income on housing, children’s cognitive ability shows a decline. The same is true when housing accounts for less than 20%. The sweet spot? “Families spending about 30 percent of their income on housing had children with the best cognitive outcomes,” Newman told the Hopkins Hub.
