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What happens when a family finally gets off the housing voucher waiting list

by Amy Scott
Mar 23, 2022
Housing vouchers can change recipients' lives but often come after years of waiting.
Kiarra Boulware with her young daughter, Brooklynn, at their apartment complex in Odenton, Maryland. A housing support program enabled them to move to a neighborhood with better conditions, including an improved educational environment for Brooklynn.
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An abandoned block is reborn in West Baltimore

by Amy Scott
Nov 10, 2021
In 2019, Poinsetta McKnight was one of the last homeowners living on her block. Now with seven restored homes, “I’m seeing it come up.”
Black Women Build - Baltimore threw a party in October to celebrate the progress on the block.
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As lumber prices soar, reclaimed wood gets a second look

by Amy Scott
Jun 1, 2021
High building costs have changed the equation for vintage materials.
Max Pollock, owner of Brick + Board in Baltimore, salvages old-growth lumber from vacant houses and industrial buildings.
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A Baltimore church grapples with its racist past

by Amy Scott
Apr 27, 2021
A personal connection to slavery sparked a reckoning that lead to reparations.
Deacon Natalie Conway stands in front of Memorial Episcopal Church in Baltimore.
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An archaeological dig in urban Baltimore reveals a forgotten past

by Amy Scott
Jan 7, 2021
It's part of a movement to make the field more accessible and inclusive.
Dena Fisher
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Baltimore students get a "taste of normalcy" at center for remote learning

by Amy Scott
Nov 12, 2020
Amid the pandemic, about 1,000 of the most vulnerable students have been attending a form of in-person school.
Christian Muñoz Aguilar sits at his workstation. The 11-year-old helped supervise his four siblings while trying to do his own schoolwork.
Amy Scott/Marketplace
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New Baltimore development raises questions about what progress really means

by Amy Scott
Oct 21, 2020
Neighbors fear the affordable housing project will further concentrate poverty in a distressed neighborhood.
A new low-income rental development rises down the street from where Black Women Build - Baltimore is renovating houses for homeownership,
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The homebuilding industry still needs thousands of workers, and it's looking in new places to hire

by Amy Scott
Sep 17, 2020
A training program for high school students in the juvenile justice system aims to expand the pool of candidates for entry-level jobs.
A construction worker roofing an apartment complex in Uniondale, New York. Construction, generally considered essential, has continued in the pandemic.
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Transforming a blighted block into a community of Black women homeowners

by Amy Scott
Aug 11, 2020
A Baltimore program helps Black women build wealth through homeownership.
At 28, Quanshay Henderson bought her first house — and helped restore it — through Black Women Build.
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Why can’t Baltimore solve its vacant housing problem?

by Amy Scott
Jul 8, 2020
Despite thousands of demolitions and rehabs, the number of empty buildings has barely budged for a decade.
A vacant house is for sale on North Payson Street in Baltimore. In 2016, an abandoned building down the block collapsed and killed a man.
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