Housing
Mapping the Density of Baltimore's Vacant-Housing Crisis
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is currently occupied with issues of policing and crime. But the city’s massive housing problem is also an issue indivisible from justice.
There are more than 16,000 vacant houses in Baltimore. Vacants are both densely pocketed inside the city and widespread across its boundaries.
That’s the at-a-glance takeaway from a new interactive map of the Baltimore metropolitan area by Amine Ouazad, an economist at INSEAD. Vacant houses are not a Baltimore County problem, though. They’re almost exclusively Baltimore City’s problem.