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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Henry
At the request of: The Safe and Sound Campaign
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Demolition Funds for Deconstruction
FOR the purpose of supporting the Baltimore Safe and Sound Campaign's request to dedicate a portion of the City's demolition budget to fund the deconstruction of vacant homes by ex-prisoners.
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The Education and Youth Committee of the Baltimore City Council held a roundtable discussion on January 19, 2012 that generated a number of ideas worth pursuing. One of the participants, the Baltimore Safe and Sound Campaign, presented the idea of dedicating a portion of the money spent by the City for demolition to fund the deconstruction of vacant houses by trained ex-prisoners.
This idea would take advantage of money that the City would be spending in any case to achieve multiple goals that would make the City a better place. The Safe and Sound Campaign advocates that the City take $2 million in either new funds, or funds already allocated in the City's demolition line item, and use those funds to take down vacant homes in a more constructive way.
Deconstruction is a technique for removing a building by essentially taking it apart, rather than blowing it up, or knocking it down, as is done in traditional demolition. It has several attributes that make it preferable to traditional demolition methods.
First,...
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