City of Baltimore - File #: 23-0186R

• File #: 23-0186R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Examining the State of Baltimore’s Middle Neighborhoods
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: In Committee
• File created: 8/21/2023
• In control: Health, Environment, and Technology
• Title: Informational Hearing - Examining the State of Baltimore’s Middle Neighborhoods For the purpose of inviting the Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Director of the Department of Planning, the Director of the Department of Transportation, the Director of the Department of Public Works, the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success, the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, the City Administrator, and other interested parties to appear before the City Council to discuss: (1) the systemic disinvestment of Baltimore’s middle neighborhoods and its connection to the decline in Baltimore’s population of working and middle class families; (2) ongoing efforts to revitalize these neighborhoods; (3) future strategies to invest in these neighborhoods; and (4) present challenges to reversing current trends and restoring these once-stable communities.
• Sponsors: Danielle N. McCray, President Nicholas J. Mosby, Kristerfer Burnett, John T. Bullock, Mark Conway, Sharon Green Middleton, Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer, Robert Stokes, Sr., Odette Ramos, Phylicia Porter, Antonio Glover, Zeke Cohen, James Torrence, Eric T. Costello
• Indexes: Baltimore City, Informational Hearing, Neighborhood

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/4/2023	0	Health, Environment, and Technology	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Dept. of Public Works
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Mayor's Office of Children and Family Success
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Baltimore City Administrator
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to City Solicitor
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Dept. of Housing and Community Development
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Dept. of Planning
8/24/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Dept. of Transportation
8/21/2023	0	Baltimore City Council	Assigned
8/21/2023	0	Baltimore 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.
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City of Baltimore
Council Bill R
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Introduced by: Councilmember McCray



A Resolution Entitled

A Council Resolution concerning
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Informational Hearing - Examining the State of Baltimore’s Middle Neighborhoods
For the purpose of inviting the Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Director of the Department of Planning, the Director of the Department of Transportation, the Director of the Department of Public Works, the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success, the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, the City Administrator, and other interested parties to appear before the City Council to discuss: (1) the systemic disinvestment of Baltimore’s middle neighborhoods and its connection to the decline in Baltimore’s population of working and middle class families; (2) ongoing efforts to revitalize these neighborhoods; (3) future strategies to invest in these neighborhoods; and (4) present challenges to reversing current trends and restoring these once-stable communities.
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Recitals

The 2020 Decennial Census found that Baltimore’s population declined by 5.7% from 2010 to 2020, a loss of approximately 35,253 residents. In its 2020 data analysis report “Drilling Down in Baltimore’s Neighborhoods, the Abell Foundation found that the majority of this population loss was constituted of working and middle class families, who are leaving Baltimore’s middle neighborhoods.

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