Baltimore's housing crisis, 14,000 vacant homes. WJZ TV Balmer, Baltimore's vacant home crisis: Committee plans on obtaining billions to combat issue
A new initiative will bring together Baltimore leaders and faith organizations to help combat the city's vacant home crisis. WJZ has been covering this issue extensively for years.
The announcement of the partnership was made Sunday in a packed church in East Baltimore. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is partnering with organizations to build a steering committee together with a goal to get $7.5 billion to invest in vacant properties in Baltimore.
Currently, there are more than 14,000 vacant homes in Baltimore. The crisis hit a major breaking point in January of 2022 when three city firefighters died while battling a fire at a vacant row home on Stricker Street.
"Baltimore, It's time. In fact, it's past time for us to come together to tackle this issue," Mayor Scott said. Mayor Scott joined The Greater Baltimore Committee, a non-profit focused on improving the region's business climate, and BUILD, an inter-faith development group. Together, they pledged to work together to reduce the number of vacant homes in Baltimore City.
Maybe, just maybe, if you could make reduce crime and make the city livable, people would come back and live there.
14k empty houses..... about 3000 homeless at any given time.... 1+1=????
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there are a number of major cities and border states that would be happy to ship you a bunch of illegal aliens, ... er, I mean undocumented refugees to fill up all those vacant houses.
ReplyDeleteAnd since diversity is our strength and these are fine people with many skills that can contribute positively to our society (even if they couldn't to their countries of origin), I'm sure Baltimore would be welcoming them with open arms. Especially Baltimore's population of POC.