They'd only look it up if someone complains. And then the only recourse would be that you'd have to remove it.

You're worried about nothing. Thanks for spending your own time and money to improve a problem lot.

That’s interesting. I feel the same about the term “African-American.” To me it seems like othering. Most black people I know were born in the USA, so they are simply Americans. But, I’m also very white, so I’ll call whoever whatever they want to be called.

People just like the idea of solving two problems are once. It's not practical but it makes sense in people's brains that we have homeless people and peopleless homes...it should be easy-peazy to unite them.

Of course, that's not reality, but certainly you can see why the idea is popular.

that particular one isn't correct. the gaps should not be spaced at typical tire width.

It cant even just be one house. So what if you renovate one rowhome if the ones on either side are crumbling? And, who cares if you renovate 3 rowhomes if the block is still full of blight?

Individual investors will never solve the vacant house problem.

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Only if someone else complains and calls an inspector out to your property themselves.

I didn’t even think of this but my only anxiety is that the house was newly bought pre pandemic and the pics online don’t have the addition. Do you think they’d look into it or am I thinking too hard?

Do you think they’ll look into it???

OOOOHHHHHH

I think you’re missing what the poster is implying

The concrete walls came with the house they’re 4 ft high and the door didn’t close properly. The contractor built a partition (fence) of wood on top of it and added a door to keep people out. Thank you for the link.

So there’s concrete walls that came with the house but it didn’t have a door that closed. The contractor built on top of it with wood and added a door.

Yeah. We are saying the same thing.

Yes they want the new Kali image on a flash drive.

Consider the pink line bus route.. Heads East from the intersection of Charles and Center Streets, then comes back from Hopkins through Charles and Madison Street. I don’t believe Hopkins will reimburse for transit costs.

Subway also works — just depends on what works for you.

Did the contractor build the wall or just the fence?

Fences are considered 'minor work', whereas the wall construction would be considered 'major work'.

I don't know what the penalty scale is for minor vs major, but you could contest the permit penalty if you are able to argue that the work was emergency.

https://dhcd.baltimorecity.gov/files/permitssurchargerulespdf That document should help.

Did you build the fence? Or was it just always there and you have no idea who did it?

I wouldn't be concerned about the new permit you're applying for.

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I was confused for so long when I had out of town friends coming into Baltimore. And they were always like “what are those people doing?”. And when I said. Hacking. They always got more confused. So I guess it’s mostly a Baltimore thing. Only time I was ever involved with a hacking experience was years ago in high school. Driving with a friend. And he was like….let’s pick this dude up! The guy mumbled a bunch of shit the whole ride not making sense and when we got to 33rd. He just was like “fuck you” and grabbed a handful of burned cds in the back seat and got out of the car. Needless to say. I don’t pick up hacks now.

If you use dismissive language about a group, the people you're trying to convince to help them will be dismissive. It's not complicated.

Your entire mental process is fundamentally flawed. Homelessness is a complex, multi-faceted problem. You are viewing it with a narrow aperture as solely the absence of a stable housing situation. The reality, however, is that there is a lot more going on.

I would argue the housing situation is a symptom of the problem. The problem is often some combination of a myriad of mental health issues, drug addiction, disabilities, financial crisis, etc. That is what leads to people not having a home. All of that is homelessness, plus the housing situation.

Simply providing a house is not going to address these underlying issues. If you want to solve these root causes you are going to need to be able to provide a large number of services to people. Baltimore is not very good at public transportation, so now what?

And then you have to consider even the mundane, day to day things. How does someone with unreliable transportation (and potentially a disability preventing usage of the existing transportation) get groceries on the regular? Much of these vacants are smack dab in the middle of a food desert.

And then another problem rears its ugly head. Crime. These vacants are generally NOT in good neighborhoods. Dropping off a highly vulnerable population in the middle of crime-ridden areas is basically a recipe for a victim factory.

Once you start to inject reality into the problem it quickly becomes apparent that the fact of a home itself is just a small part of the equation.

I use to hack drug addicts from my neighborhood “down the hill” to the dope holes. It’s how I got my own fix every day. There was no Uber. Even today you can’t typically leave your Uber waiting in an open-air drug market while you’re in line in the alley scoring your heroin.

You know that B-more saying “mess with the best…die like the rest”

Lol this is the most Baltimore shit ever. I'm surprised it doesn't come up more often.