Good point.

Keep them protected

The bigger issue with this plan is that all the schools in the area are at or above capacity. Sticking hundreds more units (which no doubt will include at least SOME children) is going to overcrowd the schools even more.

I was just thinking the same thing! I’m over here renting for 16 years, finally ready to settle into a neighborhood and maybe buy in the next 2 years 😂 Guess there’s gotta be an opposite end of the spectrum

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Saying we need reform is great, but that’s a vague and meaningless statement unless you can come up with specific changes that are actually going to improve public safety in practice. The reforms that went into place after Freddie Gray sounded good in theory, but have been a complete and total failure, and pushing for more reforms in the same direction is not going to improve peoples lives. Just look at the murder rate in the city before and after the reforms, it’s fucking absurd that people just ignore this.

2008- 234 murders 2009 - 240 murders 2010- 224 murders 2011 - 197 murders 2012 - 217 murders 2013 - 235 murders 2014 - 211 murders

2015, the year the Freddie Gray reforms were impromented - 342 murders

2016 - 318 murders 2017 - 342 murders 2018 - 309 murders 2019 - 348 murders 2020 - 335 murders 2021 - 338 murders 2022 - 335 murders

Obviously the real challenge is to address the factors that lead to people wanting to murder each other at such an absurd rate in the first place, but that is almost definitely something that is goin to take generations of work to accomplish if it is possible at all, and in the mean time whatever we’ve been trying to accomplish with the police reforms we have passed have backfired enormously.

Which likely was included to design for if they dont get TOD approval. Would be nice to clarify that if true though!

Ah good ol whore pasta. Don’t know who serves it but I made it recently using the recipe here: https://youtu.be/qudO2mVVSks Came out really good! Highly recommended if you can’t find a place to make it for you

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Foodgitive (aka the steakout) in Cedonia/Rosedale has the closest thing I've found to back in the day Captain Harvey's. Huge huge huge cheese steak subs! Very tasty subs!

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Let me guess you’re extremely white and grew up in the suburbs? So let me teach you.

Baltimore does definitely have corner stores/bodegas. They are the same thing. Our corner stores/bodega are small business by immigrants. Not 7/11 which are nothing of the same (sounds racial)

https://communityarchitectdaily.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-corner-store-blight-or-savior-of.html?m=1

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/lees-mini-market-west-baltimore-WYBL6RZYM5GY5LSQFG2VH5R6IE/

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0632

First of all. Corner store and bodega are interchangeable. You didn’t actually read any of the articles. Because bodega is the Spanish word for corner store. And yes the three previous links are indeed about Baltimore. Here they are again. No shit prices are higher at small businesses.

“The irony is that corner stores have made a come-back in many come-back neighborhoods. Bakeries, coffee shops, even occasional butcher shops have sprung up in the revitalizing communities of Remington, Hampden and Washington Village. In Pigtown's "main street" on Washington Boulevard Ms Pugh herself ran a consignment store while she was State Senator, celebrating the renaissance of retail there. Of course, most of those corner stores in the disenfranchised neighborhoods in Harlem Park, Sandtown, Park Heights and Rosemont are a far cry from their reincarnated brethren on revitalized "main streets". But are they any less useful? In neighborhoods where more than 30% of buildings are vacant sagging hulls and where up to 75% of households have no access to cars those stores are one of the few places that provide a sign of life. For example, all of the feature ATMs, and a way to get cash in communities that to this day are "redlined" by banks. Shuttering the ones that are not so well run or cause frequent disturbances would certainly not mean that another, better one would magically appear. It would most likely mean that even fewer services are available and another building would stand vacant.”

“The organization of Korean store owners (KARGO) started a scholarship program 23 years ago. with annual grants going to students in neighborhoods where member stores are located. Mayor Rawlings Blake together with Johns Hopkins had begun an initiative of enticing corner stores to sell fresh foods and reduce the problem of food deserts (Baltimarket) although from several defunct weblinks it isn't clear if the program still continues. Zoning and the liquor board have addressed the problem of too many liquor stores.” Source:https://communityarchitectdaily.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-corner-store-blight-or-savior-of.html?m=1

“Lee’s Mini Market serves a community that is 97% Black and where half of families live below the poverty level, where there are few shopping options and limited access to healthy food. As in most corner stores, the shelves at the market are stocked primarily with non-perishables: chips, canned soup, plastic-wrapped desserts and soda. It also has a limited selection of healthier offerings, such as rice and dried beans, lettuce, frozen vegetables, bananas, potatoes and onions.”

Source:https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/lees-mini-market-west-baltimore-WYBL6RZYM5GY5LSQFG2VH5R6IE/

“ABSTRACT As part of a 2009 revision to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the Department of Agriculture required WIC-authorized stores to stock additional varieties of healthy food. The long-term effects of this policy on access to healthy food are unknown. Using surveys conducted in 118 Baltimore City, Maryland, food stores in 2006 and 2012, we examined associations of the change in healthy food availability with store type, neighborhood demographics, and the 2009 WIC policy change. Overall, healthy food availability improved significantly between 2006 and 2012, with the greatest increases in corner stores and in census tracts with more than 60 percent black residents. On an 11-point scale measuring availability of fruit (3 points), vegetables (4 points), bread (2 points), and milk (2 points), the WIC policy change was associated with a 0.72-point increase in WIC-relevant healthy food availability, while joining WIC was associated with a 0.99-point increase. Stores that carry a limited variety of food items may be more receptive to stocking healthier food than previously thought, particularly within neighborhoods with a majority of black residents. Policies targeting healthy food availability have the potential to increase availability and decrease health disparity.” Source: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0632

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RCPS, Bryn Mawr

Baltimore county 2 hours late... Hereford zone closed. SOABemote:free_emotes_pack:flip_out

Wes Moore is kind of the md Obama example. Nice dudes. Black history makers. But still very rich. And that’s always the actual club that matters.

I would suggest spending a couple of weekends in Baltimore driving through different neighborhoods day and night with the listings you pull up online, look through these Baltimore reddit subs and talk to folks before making that move. As of now, commutingwise I would go with Pigtown or Fed Hill but you need to see the street and neighborhood first hand. Pics and videos online can be deceiving. Peace of mind is priceless.

Same here! Tall grass fines and a letter from animal control about a barking dog. We don’t have a dog. My wife got into it with the village of Violetville pos on ND. She’s trying to run the neighborhood like a HOA. Now she’s trying to take over the neighborhood park money from the state. There’s gotta be a way to fix this. The first thing she says when you confront her is that she’s besties with Phylicia Porter so she can do anything she want. Fuck this shit. It’s at the point where my wife panics every trash day because we might get fined again. I’m ready to move out over it.

Nobody above the law

An elected official with an extensive amount of military background. It really shouldn't be a shock

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Haha not at all. I moved to Cockeysville at the start of freshman year hs. We were poor and the complexes seemed nice but it was a lot of section 8 housing. Don't get me wrong it's nowhere near a ghetto but I had a gun pulled on me for the first time in those apartments. I'd say there are about 8 apartment communities clustered there around DHS and they're clustered there so they contain everyone to that one area

Let's get the unredacted report!

Man, criminals up there are so forward thinking - down here they all use cars.

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The Catholic Church is history’s largest pedophile ring.