{"id":3159,"date":"2023-03-09T08:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpa.org\/education\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2023-06-02T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:05:16","slug":"a-tale-of-two-cities-a-look-at-baltimores-housing-insecurity-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpa.org\/education\/2023\/03\/09\/a-tale-of-two-cities-a-look-at-baltimores-housing-insecurity-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two cities: a look at Baltimore\u2019s housing insecurity challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tashi McQueen,
\nAFRO Political Writer,
\ntmcqueen@afro.com<\/p>\n

Take a five-mile drive through Baltimore and you can\u2019t help but notice how wealth is disproportionately dispersed throughout the area. Though Charm City is home to the affluent communities of Charles Village, Harbor East, Canton and Gilford, it\u2019s also home to more than 14,000 abandoned homes on hundreds of long-forgotten blocks.<\/p>\n

The high-end neighborhoods quickly give way to homeless encampments sprawled across the D.C. area. Last year, the point-in-time count done by the Mayor\u2019s Office of Homeless Services also found that on a random February night in Baltimore, more than 1,500 people were sleeping on the street.<\/p>\n

Kindled by poverty and fanned into flames by economic inflation and COVID -19, homelessness is an American firestorm,\u00a0 and it burns brightly in Baltimore. A snapshot of that dilemma is now emerging, according to social researchers and anti-poverty advocates.<\/p>\n

Nearly half of Baltimore\u2019s residents live below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, according to information from Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) researchers, who found recently that more than half of the city\u2019s poor live on\u00a0 annual incomes that are at or below 50 percent of the national poverty line. Data also shows that more than one-third of children in Baltimore City live in low-income households.<\/p>\n

The current federal poverty <\/a>level, as determined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is an income of $14,580 a year for an individual or\u00a0$30,000 a year for a family of four.<\/p>\n

HCH cited healthcare limitations as another contributing factor for Baltimore residents living on the poverty line. They found that insurance doesn\u2019t cover 40 percent of the services their clients need.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Alexis Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baltimore city government 2022 statistics say it is hard to track unaccompanied homeless youth, as it is not always prevalent, but they know at least 13 percent of homeless people are youth<\/a> accompanied by a parent or guardian.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost youth who fall into homelessness are aging out of the foster care system,\u201d said Lonnie Walker, founder of JOY Baltimore. \u201cWe also find the issue to be that some young people think they can do what they want in their parent\u2019s home and it doesn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black Baltimoreans are significantly disadvantaged.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> by The Urban Institute, poverty entry rates are twice as high for Blacks as Whites\u2014 11 percent versus 5 percent. Low-income individuals have a 30 percent chance of getting out of poverty annually, but Black people, households led by women and households with more children have a reduced ability to escape poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the neighborhoods that make up the Black butterfly, more than half the residents within the Butterfly have problems with blight,\u201d said Nneka Nnamdi of Fight Blight. \u201cSixty percent of folks in Baltimore are housing insecure, which means people paid more than 30 percent of their income in housing costs. In a predominantly Black city, we know many Black people are affected by blight and housing insecurities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to a Vacant Property Research Network <\/a>report, housing blight is the presence of dilapidated buildings, vacant lots, and abandoned houses that bring down a neighborhood\u2019s value and pose a safety risk for the community.<\/p>\n

Aside from more than 14,000 abandoned and vacant buildings, there are another 21,000 vacant lots and 34,000 properties with notable risk of vacancy in Baltimore, according to Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development (BUILD).<\/p>\n

BUILD is a multi-faith community organization working to improve Baltimorean quality of life.<\/p>\n

An economic report<\/a> from Maryland\u2019s Department of Commerce reveals that Baltimore\u2019s population continues to decrease; Baltimore has lost 34,830 residents since 2010.<\/p>\n

A Fight Blight report says the steep decrease in residents has caused a dysfunctional real estate market and higher taxes than residents and businesses can afford.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBlight is a driver of displacement and, in that regard, a driver of homelessness,\u201d said Nnamdi. \u201cIf someone cannot safely live in an apartment, row home, single-family homes, often people are left to couch surf, house squat, go to homeless shelters or move somewhere afar off, leaving them disconnected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Due to this reality, several Baltimore Homeless organizations are working to curb the crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cBaltimore Outreach Services is one of only three emergency shelter programs in the city that serves women and children. The families we serve are the poorest in Baltimore City and are a vulnerable population with few resources and many barriers to success,\u201d said Cathy Wood-Rupert, executive director of Baltimore Outreach Services in a statement. \u201cLocated in the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, the shelter houses up to 40 individuals 24\/7, providing three meals per day. Baltimore Outreach also provides wrap-around services to aid residents in identifying housing opportunities, mental and physical health services, job placement services, children\u2019s educational needs, financial literacy and nutritional programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

JOY Baltimore is a local organization that works to assist and build up Baltimore\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cJOY serves Black, Latino, White and immigrant people around Baltimore and the state of Maryland,\u201d said Walker. \u201cJOY has helped homeless youth in a nationwide challenge throughout the city. We had to house 100 young people in 100 days and succeeded. We helped 134 people ages 18-24.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 85 percent of the youth JOY Baltimore has helped are Black.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hold youth 12-24 accountable for what they need such as school, employment resources, food support, bus tokens,\u201d continued Walker.<\/p>\n

Anissa Durham from Word in Black contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tashi McQueen is a Report For America Corps Member.<\/em><\/p>\n

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