City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0095R

• File #: 05-0095R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Low Income Rental Housing
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 10/17/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 11/20/2006
• Title: Informational Hearing - Low Income Rental Housing FOR the purpose of inviting the author of "Low-End Rental Housing: The Forgotten Story in Baltimore's Housing Boom" to share with the City Council and the Baltimore public the findings concerning the state of low-income residential real estate rental property in the City; and asking the Baltimore City Housing Commissioner to share with the Council the agency's response to the report and the efforts the City has made to ensure that decent rental properties are available to low income residents in all neighborhoods throughout the City.
• Sponsors: Sheila Dixon, James B. Kraft, Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, Paula Johnson Branch, Robert Curran, Kenneth Harris, Helen L. Holton, Keiffer Mitchell, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Edward Reisinger, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch
• Indexes: Housing, Informational Hearing, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/20/2006	0	City Council	Withdrawn
10/20/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/17/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
10/17/2005	0	City Council	Assigned

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INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Dixon

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Low Income Rental Housing

FOR the purpose of inviting the author of "Low-End Rental Housing: The Forgotten Story in Baltimore's Housing Boom" to share with the City Council and the Baltimore public the findings concerning the state of low-income residential real estate rental property in the City; and asking the Baltimore City Housing Commissioner to share with the Council the agency's response to the report and the efforts the City has made to ensure that decent rental properties are available to low income residents in all neighborhoods throughout the City.
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Last month the Urban Institute published a research report, funded by the Abell Foundation, on Baltimore's low-end private rental housing market that held that the problems in this market are wide ranging, and that despite the recent heralding of the "real estate's rising tide" in Baltimore's home prices, there is an opposite end of the spectrum where there are an estimated 40,000 low-income renters who cannot afford even the modest rents on their dwellings and who live in substandard housing, or both, and that nearly 20,000 substandard units are renting for less than the median rent.

Even a sustained geographically widespread surge in residential sales will not address the serious problems in the low-end rental market where, according to the author, 1/2 of all rental units in Balt...