Housing commissioner moves to revoke apartment complex license
Baltimore officials are trying to revoke the license of an apartment landlord in the city's Reservoir Hill neighborhood and move residents out of the 202 units, a rare step aimed at stamping out drug activity and violence, The Sun's Jamie Smith Hopkins reports.
Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano said he issued a notice late Monday of his intent to revoke the license of the Madison Park North Apartments in the 700 block of W. North Ave. A hearing is scheduled for September to determine the fate of the property and its residents, many of whom would be relocated with government assistance if the license is pulled.
Neighbors call the complex "murder mall," said Saundra Matthews, who lives nearby. "It's terrible," she said, listing off incidents in the area: robbery, fights, killing. "You've got to go there in the daytime."
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The city always tries to erase stuff and make it not there instead of actually facing its issues and problems and Fixing them.
How about actually working with the landlord to FIX the issues with he residents who are at fault INSTEAD of making 200 and some families homeless relocating does nothing but MOVE the issues
Posted by: Marie | August 16, 2010 11:20 PM
I wish Paul Graziano would focus his attention on the ridiculously high rental rates that landlords collect through the Housing Choice Voucher Program. I don't know of many market rate tenants who would pay $1,200/month to live in McElderry Park or Pigtown, but the housing authority doesn't seem to be aware of that.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford | August 16, 2010 11:20 PM
I would venture to say that most of the monsters that are committing crimes either don't live there or have been allowed to live with a tenant who resides there. HABC and the property mananger need to provide more oversight to deal with that issue.
Posted by: Glenda | August 17, 2010 10:04 AM