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> Other counties have already put federal funds to use. In March, Anne Arundel County’s housing commission used a portion of its federal COVID-19 relief funds to purchase a 16-unit apartment building that currently is 100% occupied, according to Clifton Martin, CEO of the county’s housing commission.

So we are aiming for the end of 2024.

The city wouldn't have jackwagons like me punching them when they're down, and we always seem to be down, if there were a modicum of competency.

>Eileen Cotton, who was formerly homeless and now serves on the Lived Experience Advisory Committee, convened by the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services, expressed frustration at the slow rollout of hotel beds. The city, she said, will come up with plans but “they don’t follow through with it, so it’s just a wait and see,” said Cotton.

Giving everyone who wants it a cot, a sleeping bag, and setting them up in city hall would be far more effective and maybe even get the Scott administration to do something that isn't wrapped in 47 layers good intentions but producing poor outcomes.

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What poor outcomes are you expecting from this plan?

The cynic in me predicts that this housing will run into the same issues as the public housing projects that came before us.

Poor outcome = Scott admin failing to get shelter up and running. It's them guestimating that they'll have it underway by 2024 when the story says other states have had people in their shelters since last year/2021. Meanwhile, it's 9 degrees out right now. I'd say that's a tremendously poor outcome for the people who it was supposed to help. They could be staying living at the Radisson for years for that kind of financial outlay.

Does anyone doubt the funds have been being allocated by the BMore Charitable Industrial Complex since the money first came available. We're great at press conferences....not so much at everything after.

Along these same lines of homelessness and housing inequities. I landed on a document, put out some years ago about the city's quiet program of getting out of the housing business. ALl of this was part of the implosion of the high rise city apartments. That the new plan was to have few or no city owned public housing, but to provide vouchers for people to fend for themselves in the private sector. I am thinking that the rapid rise of street people was also seen during this period of getting out of the housing business. Below is the site. I would like to hear others opinion on the article.

https://abell.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Housing.update.1007.pdf

Abell reports are a fantastic way to examine some of the very entrenched, yet solvable problems Baltimore faces.

It’s worth reading their recent report on the RAD Program, which is part of the city’s long-term strategy to reduce its high-rise public housing stock.

Thanks