State of the City Address - Press Release. In first address as newly-elected Mayor of Baltimore, Mayor Rawlings-Blake provides details about initiatives to further the goal of growing Baltimore by 10,000 families in the next 10 years.
Today, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake delivered the State of the City Address as newly-elected Mayor of Baltimore. Mayor Rawlings-Blake urged members of the City Council to fully support an ambitious goal to grow the city by 10,000 families over the next ten years by enacting new proposals to improve school buildings, reduce crime, and decrease property taxes for Baltimore’s families. The Mayor offered a preview of several new initiatives that she will propose to the City Council in the budget, which improves public safety, education, neighborhood revitalization, and economic development. Two Years of Progress The Mayor highlighted progress and success already achieved in these Pillars of Growth in her first two full years in office. Growing Neighborhoods Investing in the Future A Safer City. In Growing Baltimore, Are Immigrants The Key? Copyright © 2012 NPR.
For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. This is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. But first, a newsmaker interview with the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. But now Baltimore's mayor is fighting that trend, hoping to gain 10,000 families over the next 10 years.
Welcome to the program. MAYOR STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE: It is certainly my pleasure. News & Media. BALTIMORE, MD.
(SEPTEMBER 10, 2012) – Today, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano, elected officials, community leaders, and residents gathered to celebrate the demolition of a vacant building at the northeast edge of the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello (CHM) neighborhood. The towering structure, located at 1901 East 31st Street, had been an ever-present monument of urban decay that plagued residents for years. Through Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Vacants to Value initiative, Baltimore City is launching targeted code enforcement efforts in a portion of this community to ensure that blighted, vacant buildings are rehabilitated, sold, or demolished more quickly. These blight elimination efforts will improve the quality of life, security, and safety of the surrounding neighborhood. "Today we celebrate a step forward for this community, and another victory for Vacants to Value," said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Baltimore homeowners may be leaving cash on table - Baltimore Business Journal.
Vacants to Value - Baltimore Housing. Healthy Neighborhoods. Housing (Vacancy Map) Baltimore Slumlord Watch. Baltimore has decided some neighborhoods just aren’t worth saving. By Yepoka Yeebo In Baltimore the wrecks stretch for blocks in every direction.
Shattered windows, buckling walls, sometimes just a façade, propped up by the houses on either side. The vacant streets are punctuated by the odd meticulously kept home, a living city slowly turning into a ghost town. Click here to see some of the abandoned homes > Baltimore has tried to deal with the tens of thousands of abandoned houses that mar the city. There were radical efforts seize abandoned homes and sell off city-owned property. As Baltimore faces a $52 million budget shortfall, there is a more urgent need than ever to deal with the vacant homes, which still require public services like fire and police patrol. 47,000 vacant properties. The numbers vary depending on who’s counting, but the highest estimates suggest there are 46,800 vacant houses and lots in Baltimore — 16 percent of the city’s residences.
Baltimore Slumlord Watch names and shames the owners of the most decrepit buildings. Skeptics.