Baltimore housed over 1. Now there are less than half that number, but not enough housing? I assure you that any investment in Baltimore is wasted. There is a long tradition of corruption and ruin. The new residents won't be invested in the property they don't own. Officials will steal the maintenance money until they fall into ruin and need to be torn down.
A very familiar story in Baltimore. Sign in. View more in. Perkins Homes demolition makes way for major redevelopment By Jeff Hager. Community Policy. The ultimate guide to brunching in Baltimore.
Top five fun things to do in Baltimore. Author Recent Posts. Follow Ethan. Ethan McLeod. Senior Editor at Baltimore Fishbowl. Ethan has been editing and reporting for Baltimore Fishbowl since fall of Originally Posted by dogpark. Perkins definitely has to go, such a development stopper for that section of Southeast Baltimore. There is several shootings there a year.
Everywhere surrounding there other than the one or two block radius is taking off, including a large new project coming to Jonestown which could spur a further spread of redevelopment. I heard a rumor they are trying to relocate many of the tenants to O'Donnell Heights which is currently being rebuilt.
But I also heard that Baltimore has taken heat with the ADA for not having enough housing, so tearing that down could creat issues. It would certainly be a massive redevelopment as that area is huge. They could keep a few hundred of the tenants for affordable housing, and add an additional couple thousand units at market rate. Sorry but this is all a bit misguided. You can talk plenty about how it should be redeveloped or you'd like it to be torn down.
But there's absolutely no pathway for that to happen any time soon. Everything else is just rumor. Choice Neighborhoods, its successor program, has very little money. Choice Neighborhoods is mentioned as a redevelopment idea for every single project HABC owns, and their planning grant proposal got turned down already for Somerset Homes, where they had an actual vacant site and that's still not near to getting implementation money. Meanwhile they've put money into Perkins for expanding handicap access and weatherization.
But that wouldn't make any sense for him as a developer, and they're not really contiguous at all. It's a different story for State Center where the McCulloh buildings aren't in that bad of shape, but the market forces right next door might provide a way to do a redevelopment. I'd be interested to hear an HABC official talk privately about which projects they actually considered good and bad - their criteria are more about building conditions and overall problems than market opportunity and eliminating neighbors' perceptions of crime.
They moan about outdated buildings and funding cutbacks, but they do that to get money out of the feds, not to meaningfully cut their inventory beyond what they already have in the past 20 years. And they have massive constituencies pressuring them not to cut back, an institutional structure that makes it hard to do, and lots of outside advocates very willing to sue them if they do try to cut back.
They get major lawsuits constantly that turn into consent decrees constraining what they can do. A not-awesome one from an outsider's perspective is their insistence on putting Non-Elderly Disabled units into everything they do now. Lots of people would like to blow up every public housing unit there is, and probably the other subsidized units too. Isn't going to happen, unless HUD gets eliminated at a national level.
If you can't talk about a mechanism for a specific project then you're wasting your time. I apologize for using "should" instead of "can" I was just trying to get some creative master planning ideas. There are always obstacles to redevelopment so master planning timelines can be drawn out for 10 to 15 years.
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