Baltimore leaders try to rid City of vacant homes and urban blight
Mayor plans to enact stiff penalties for owners
Posted: 11/03/2010
Baltimore, Md. - Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul Graziano are joining forces to reduce vacant housing and urban blight in the city.
Right now, approximately 16 thousand buildings are vacant in the city. Roughly 25 percent of those are city owned.
The Mayor plans to enact stiff penalties for owners who own blighted properties-- in order to promote rehabilitation in the City.
Officials estimate that more than 57 hundred of the vacant structures are in areas with existing or emerging development demand.
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