Baltimore City’s Overlooked Vacant Housing Crisis

Vacant Baltimore is a project designed to educate residents and visitors of the city on the current housing crisis, focusing heavily on the abandoned building and vacant home issues facing Baltimore.

Since 1950, America’s largest independent city has seen its population decrease by nearly one-third, and the devastating results can be seen throughout many of the city’s neighborhoods.

There are an estimated 16,000 vacant structures in Baltimore, and roughly two-thirds of them are in need of being demolished for the city’s long-term benefit.

Stories

Greenmount Avenue welcomes tourists and residents to Baltimore’s hidden problem

Traveling south on Greenmount Avenue can be awfully hard on the eyes…Read full story

Mayor Rawlings-Blake’s Vacants to Value brings hope to city neighborhoods

It’s been one year since Baltimore City Mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced a new plan to help improve the city’s…Read full story

McCabe Avenue highlights Baltimore’s housing crisis six months after demolition

As potential homebuyers make the turn east onto narrow Glenwood Avenue from York Road they find themselves dodging the occasional…Read full story

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Map of Baltimore City housing services
View important housing services locations around Baltimore, as well as places where you are likely to find more information. Click here

 

Vacants to Value one year later slideshow
Take a look at Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Vacants to Value program one year after it went into effect. Click here

 

McCabe Ave demolisions, Alhambra Park photo slideshow
View photos of the North Baltimore demolition six months later. Click here