City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0195R

• File #: 06-0195R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - The Status of Public Housing in Baltimore City
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/12/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/12/2006
• Title: Informational Hearing - The Status of Public Housing in Baltimore City FOR the purpose of requesting the Housing Commissioner, in the role of Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC), to report to the City Council on the current status of public housing in the City; to provide an assessment of the trends in the public housing needs of low-income residents; to report court proceedings regarding former and current residents of public housing whose children have been harmed by exposure to lead paint; and to analyze the impact of recent local and federal court rulings on the future of public housing demographics in Baltimore City and the surrounding counties.
• Sponsors: President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Dixon, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Kenneth Harris, Keiffer Mitchell, Mary Pat Clarke, Belinda Conaway, Paula Johnson Branch
• Indexes: Housing, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/12/2006	0	City Council	Adopted
6/5/2006	0	City Council	Introduced

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Young

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - The Status of Public Housing in Baltimore City

FOR the purpose of requesting the Housing Commissioner, in the role of Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC), to report to the City Council on the current status of public housing in the City; to provide an assessment of the trends in the public housing needs of low-income residents; to report court proceedings regarding former and current residents of public housing whose children have been harmed by exposure to lead paint; and to analyze the impact of recent local and federal court rulings on the future of public housing demographics in Baltimore City and the surrounding counties.
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This past January, a federal judge issued a major housing desegregation ruling that held that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) violated fair housing law by failing to take a regional approach to the desegregation of public housing, declaring that Baltimore "should not be viewed as an island reservation for use as a container" for the area's poor. The decision was hailed as a victory for public housing tenants and their advocates that filed suit in 1995, charging that City and federal officials failed to dismantle the segregated system of public housing put in place in the 1930s and 1940s, thereby effectively consigning poor black residents to the City's most distresse...