AltWeeklies Wire
Exploring a Century of Baltimore's Racist Real-Estate Deals and Developmentsnew

It started with a routine transaction. Few people noticed when Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins bought the rowhouse at 1834 McCulloh St. on a rainy June Thursday in 1910, but three weeks later, Hawkins was big news. He was black.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
03-23-2010 |
Housing & Development
HUD Rescinds, Then Reinstates, License of Mortgage Lender Equitable Trustnew
The Federal Housing Administration suspended Equitable Trust Mortgage Corp., a Canton mortgage lender, from originating new FHA mortgages for six months. Then reinstated the company a few days later after it agreed to make restitution averaging about $4,000 per borrower and pay a fine.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
01-05-2010 |
Housing & Development
Conference Brings Together People Working Toward Redefining the Urban Spacenew
For activists who long struggled to fight developers and speculators, the recent halt in economic activity has been an opportunity to rethink what the city means and can become, and this weekend's radical conference in Baltimore, The City From Below, addresses those concerns.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
03-31-2009 |
Housing & Development
The Promised Uplandsnew
Residents and developers wait to see what the future holds for westside Baltimore neighborhood.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
03-25-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Watching the Inspectorsnew
Hilton Green is highly qualified to investigate Baltimore's Department of Housing -- so why isn't he?
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
11-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
One Baltimore Family's Life on the Streetnew
Nowhere to go but out, nowhere to come but back.
Baltimore City Paper |
Erin Sullivan |
04-24-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Where Credit Is Duenew

A Batlimore can-do mortgage broker goes for broke -- but is the housing boom lowering on him?
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
02-21-2007 |
Housing & Development
Falling Downnew
Investors collapse yet another house.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
11-21-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
End of Their Scopenew
The success and failure of owner-occupant neighborhood renewal play out on one Baltimore city block.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
03-15-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development