People’s Homesteading Group
$50,000 / 2001 / Community Development
Two-year support of the Anchors of Hope initiative in the Greenmount Community for the rehabilitation of six vacant houses for resale.
Baltimore Regional Partnership
$50,000 / 2001 / Community Development
For an analysis of alternative land use, transportation, and housing scenarios for the Baltimore region. This study will help to provide new planning tools for strategies to reduce traffic and air pollution.
Preservation Maryland
$25,000 / 2001 / Community Development
For the Historic Communities Investment Fund, a matching grant program to create additional historic districts in Baltimore. These new and expanded districts will be eligible for the Maryland State Historic rehabilitation tax credit refund.
Citizens Planning and Housing Association
$17,000 / 2001 / Community Development
Two grants for the Campaign for Regional Solutions, toward the development of policies designed to break up concentrations of poverty in the Baltimore region.
Civil Justice, Inc.
$60,000 / 2001 / Community Development
To provide legal services to low- and moderate-income first-time homebuyers in Baltimore City in an effort to prevent unscrupulous and illegal real estate transactions known as “flipping.”