Baltimore Renters United In The News
Housing Advocacy
National Low Income Housing Coalition- Several States, Including Maryland, Introduce Just Cause Eviction Protections This Legislative Session- March 2025
Inclusionary Housing- Mayor Scott Signs Inclusionary Housing Bills Into Law- Jan 2024
The Baltimore Beat
Baltimore Renters United Court Watch & BRU Advocacy in the Baltimore Beat
Baltimore Beat - Housing For All - October 2023
Baltimore Beat - The Lucrative Business of Rent Court - August 2023
Baltimore Beat - Baltimore Rent Courts stack the deck in favor of landlords - November 2022
Right To Counsel
Baltimore Brew: Rental assistance logjam in Baltimore is creating a wave of preventable evictions - September 2022
Baltimore Brew - Baltimore sheriff’s no-show comes amid calls to end “traumatizing” eviction practices - June 2022
WYPR - Rising post-moratorium evictions: tenant and landlord perspectives - January 2022
Maryland Matters - Fair Housing Advocates Urge Baltimore Officials to Stop Evictions Amid Omicron Surge - January 2022
Evictions & Rent Court
WMAR-2: City council passes bills to protect renters and end homelessness - November 2020
Baltimore Brew: Advocates urge rapid implementation of tenants’ right to counsel - December 2020
Maryland Matters - Hogan Urged to Sign Bill That Will Help Some Tenants Facing Eviction - April 2022
Tenant Organizing
WYPR: https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2024-03-21/will-a-new-law-help-baltimore-residents-living-in-poorly-maintained-building - March 2024
WMAR: https://www.wmar2news.com/local/we-need-this-housing-advocates-celebrate-dismissal-of-overdue-rent-cases - May 2023
Baltimore Sun: Baltimore residents call for renter assistance, action on campaign promises during annual Taxpayers’ Night - April 2023
WYPR: Advocates raise the alarm as emergency rental assistance dries up - March 2023
Baltimore Banner: Tenants live in dangerous, unsanitary conditions across Baltimore. A new bill would crack down on their landlords - February 2023
Baltimore Sun: Baltimore City Council bill calls for more inspections of apartment buildings with repeated code violations - February 2023
Baltimore Sun: Reservoir Hill tenants protest what they call poor housing conditions, unresponsive landlord: ‘This is unacceptable’ - August 2022
Nonprofit Quarterly: Building Tenant Power: A Growing Movement Rises in Baltimore - May 2022
WMAR: Group rallies in downtown Baltimore to call on city to reduce police budget and invest more communities - March 2022
WYPR: Baltimore housing advocates call for halt on evictions - January 2022
Baltimore Brew - “Doing this in the name of renters like myself and my family – that’s despicable” - April 2021