Baltimore City Council
File #: 21-0001R    Version: 0 Name: Investigative Hearing - Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Type: City Council Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 1/11/2021 In control: Economic and Community Development
On agenda: Final action: 5/16/2022
Enactment #:
Title: Investigative Hearing - Affordable Housing Trust Fund For the purpose of inviting the Acting Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development, relevant staff, and the Chair and other members of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Commission to provide an update on the status of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund including, but not limited to, information regarding revenue raised each year since passage of Ordinance 18-215, projects and initiatives funded so far, projects and initiatives in the pipeline to be funded, the spending plan, and ideas for improving the Fund.
Sponsors: Odette Ramos, Ryan Dorsey, Kristerfer Burnett, Sharon Green Middleton, John T. Bullock, James Torrence, Zeke Cohen, Robert Stokes, Sr., Antonio Glover
Indexes: Affordable Housing, Investigative Hearing, Trust Fund
Attachments: 1. 21-0001R~1st Reader, 2. HABC 21-0001R, 3. 21-0001R Hearing Packet C, 4. 21-0001R Hearing Notes, 5. 21-0001R - Written Testimony, 6. Hearing Agenda - 21-0001R, 7. Hearing Minutes - 21-0001R, 8. 21-0001R - DHCD Presentation, 9. Testimony - D Sparco - 3-3-21 2, 10. DHCD 21-0001R, 11. Finance 21-0001R, 12. AHTF-FY21-Annual Report UPDATE, 13. 21-0001R Letter - HFA, 14. 21-0001R Hearing Agenda 05-03-22, 15. 21-0001R DHCD Testimony 5-3-22.docx, 16. 21-0001R Hearing Notes 05-03-22, 17. 21-0001R Voting Form, 18. 21-0001R Hearing Minutes 05-03-22, 19. 21-0001R~2nd Reader
* 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 Ramos


A Resolution Entitled

A Council Resolution concerning
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Investigative Hearing - Affordable Housing Trust Fund
For the purpose of inviting the Acting Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development, relevant staff, and the Chair and other members of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Commission to provide an update on the status of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund including, but not limited to, information regarding revenue raised each year since passage of Ordinance 18-215, projects and initiatives funded so far, projects and initiatives in the pipeline to be funded, the spending plan, and ideas for improving the Fund.
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Recitals

Whereas, The Baltimore City Affordable Housing Trust Fund was created through a charter amendment ballot initiative, which permitted the City Council to create funding sources by Ordinance and to place the resulting revenue in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund;

Whereas, In 2018, the City Council passed Ordinance 18-215, which identified the source of the Fund’s revenue, and Mayor Pugh agreed to increase that revenue incrementally with additional funds to eventually reach $20 million;

Whereas, The Affordable Housing Trust Fund Commission was appointed in 2018 and oversees the Fund; and

Whereas, The Department of Housing and Community Development administers the Fund.

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the City Council of Baltimore, That th...

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