Mayor Announces Vacants to Value Clinton Initiative Commitment
The city starting in 2013 has vowed to demolish and rehabilitate 3,000 homes.
In celebrating the second anniversary of the city’s Vacants to Value initiative, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Baltimore would participate in the Clinton Global Initiative’s Commitment to Action by eliminating 3,000 vacant homes. On Tuesday, Rawlings-Blake announced the city, as part of the commitment, will demolish 1,500 vacant homes and will rehab 1,500 homes through the Vacants to Value program staring in January 2013, according to a news release. "President [Bill] Clinton established the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) to address economic recovery in the United States," Rawlings-Blake said in a news release. "Vacants to Value is now two years old, and we have the momentum to meet this ambitious goal, which …
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Sean Tully
8:55 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
I'm with Matt. Although I am not clear on what he means by building "new communities" that fit our 21st century lifestyles, I have been rethinking this idea of building new homes that fit the "characteristics" of Baltimore City, i.e., rowhomes. I think if we started tearing down wide swaths of old, run down rowhomes, and replace them with single homes with lawns, etc., we might get more people … more ›