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Overcoming Barriers to Homeownership in Baltimore City

Could additional first-time homebuyer incentives and more flexibly underwritten loans reverse declining rates of homeownership in Baltimore? The short answer: not alone.

Prevention, Intervention, and Policy Strategies to Respond to ACEs in Baltimore

This Abell Report explores prevention, intervention, and policy strategies to reduce the individual and societal costs associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) for children in Baltimore City.

Reforming Child Support to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families

Child support enforcement practices fuel a cycle of poverty and instability for low-income parents and families. This Abell Report examines the data and recommends strategies Maryland can adopt to reform its child support system.

Baltimore's Digital Divide

This Abell Report documents the depths of Baltimore's digital divide, a systemic problem that is now urgent and acute as it creates barriers to remote learning, telehealth appointments, and applying for jobs and benefits.

Drilling Down in Baltimore's Neighborhoods

This Abell Report mines data from 2000 to 2017 to better understand how the racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic composition of Baltimore's neighborhoods have changed.

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Criminal Justice & Addiction

Reforming the Pretrial System

Most of the 12 million jail bookings in the United States each year are for low-level, nonviolent charges. More than 60 percent of people in jail have not yet been to trial, and as many as nine in 10 of those people are in jail because they cannot afford to post bond. The consequences can be...

Building a Stronger High School Pipeline to Careers

As the nation endeavors to ensure that every high school graduate is “career and college ready,” interest in career and technology education (CTE) programs has surged. Less than half of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) graduates currently enroll in two- or four-year colleges, making...

Supporting Low-income Residents by Improving Energy Efficiency and Lowering Utility Costs

Over two-thirds of Baltimore’s housing stock was built before 1959, and these homes use approximately 40 percent more energy than homes built after 2000. Lowering utility costs is critically important to strengthening the financial well-being of low-income families; reducing the usage of...

Civic Works Real Food Farm

In 2010, Civic Works began building a farming operation for food production and access, workforce training, and education of Baltimore City school children on six acres in Clifton Park called Real Food Farm. Farm operations have grown to include seven production high tunnels (or hoop houses),...

Helping Returning Citizens to Find Employment

Every year, approximately 10,000 individuals in Maryland are released from prison, with many of them returning to Baltimore City. Unfortunately, within three years, 40 percent of those released (or 4,000) are rearrested, and the unemployment rate among those recently released exceeds 50 percent...

Promoting Healthy Development by Expanding Access to Physical Activity

As the city that played home to Babe Ruth’s early love affair with the home run, to the prominence of the Dunbar Poets basketball teams several decades later, Baltimore has a storied history of youth involvement in sports and other physical activities. But recent trends indicate a shortage of...

Growing Baltimore’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Every year the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) has 25 graduate engineering students actively working on solutions to medical challenges that involve potentially commercially marketable devices and concepts....

Addressing Youth Homelessness in Baltimore

Unaccompanied homeless youth are an extremely vulnerable group. Living on their own—without the support of parents or guardians, and without a safe, stable home—many of them stay temporarily with friends or live in abandoned houses, on the street, or in locations not meant for habitation. The...

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Overcoming Barriers to Homeownership in Baltimore City

Prevention, Intervention, and Policy Strategies to Respond to ACEs in Baltimore

Reforming Child Support to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families

Baltimore's Digital Divide

Drilling Down in Baltimore's Neighborhoods

Criminal Justice & Addiction

Reforming the Pretrial System

Education

Building a Stronger High School Pipeline to Careers

Community Development

Supporting Low-income Residents by Improving Energy Efficiency and Lowering Utility Costs

Community Development

Civic Works Real Food Farm

Workforce Development

Helping Returning Citizens to Find Employment

Health & Human Services

Promoting Healthy Development by Expanding Access to Physical Activity

Community Development

Growing Baltimore’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Health & Human Services

Addressing Youth Homelessness in Baltimore

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