City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0302R

• File #: 11-0302R
• Version: 0
• Name: Inclusionary Housing Progress Reports
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 6/20/2011
• In control: City Council
• Title: Inclusionary Housing Progress Reports FOR the purpose of requesting the Commissioner of Housing to submit to the City Council regular reports on progress toward the goal of providing inclusionary housing for the residents of Baltimore City; directing the reports to be submitted to the Committee of the Whole every 90 days; and requiring the implementation of the Inclusionary Progress Report program beginning on September 1, 2011, and continuing until the goals set forth in the legislation have been met to the satisfaction of the members of the City Council and the citizens of Baltimore City.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, William H. Cole, IV, Robert Curran, Bill Henry, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Edward Reisinger, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Belinda Conaway, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, William "Pete" Welch
• Indexes: Housing, Inclusionary, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/23/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/23/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/20/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
6/20/2011	0	City Council	Assigned

* 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 Holton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Inclusionary Housing Progress Reports

FOR the purpose of requesting the Commissioner of Housing to submit to the City Council regular reports on progress toward the goal of providing inclusionary housing for the residents of Baltimore City; directing the reports to be submitted to the Committee of the Whole every 90 days; and requiring the implementation of the Inclusionary Progress Report program beginning on September 1, 2011, and continuing until the goals set forth in the legislation have been met to the satisfaction of the members of the City Council and the citizens of Baltimore City.
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Recitals

The anticipated extension of the provisions of the Inclusionary Housing law until 2020 will do little to assure advocates that measures are in place to guarantee that developers will build affordable housing for the “working poor” within the period of the extension or that there will be a choice of affordable housing for working families in the future.

As stated in the Code: “It is the policy of Baltimore City to encourage economic diversity and balanced neighborhoods by promoting the inclusion of housing opportunities for residents with a broad range of incomes in all residential projects that contain 30 or more residential units”.

A regular monitoring of progress toward the stated goal and oversight to m...