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Baltimore has a vacant housing crisis. Could a land bank help solve it?

Bree Jones walked into a three-story rowhouse in Harlem Park, stepping on bare wooden boards and past exposed joists — the bones of a rebuilt house — and felt proud.

Tribune News Service · Mar 2, 2023

Baltimore uses bonds for its glitziest developments. What if they could rehab vacant rowhouses?

Joseph “Joe” Meyerhoff II has a solution to Baltimore’s vacant home crisis that even he knows sounds crazy, but some in the city of Baltimore are examining the idea.

Tribune News Service · Jan 6, 2023

‘Ghost homes’ haunt Baltimore’s housing market. City officials think they have a creative solution

Stepping over needles on the sidewalk, Alexander Cruz walked up to the crumbling front stoop of a West Baltimore home. He craned his neck and looked through an open third-story window to see whether the roof had caved in yet.

Tribune News Service · Nov 23, 2022