leading to a wave of foreclosures that forced black homeowners back into ghetto apartments and devastated the middle class neighborhoods to which these families had moved. The City of Baltimore ...

In Baltimore, this meant neighborhoods that had long been the epicenter of Black life. “They called it a ghetto, but that wasn’t the case,” said Smith. “It was a thriving community.” ...

It contends that the government sowed the seeds for the poor, segregated neighborhoods that ring downtown Baltimore today. While the impoverished black ghetto seems a painful fixture of urban ...

Ed Rutkowski, head of a community development corporation in one marginal Baltimore neighborhood, labeled Section 8 "a catalyst in neighborhood deterioration and ghetto expansion" in 2003.

Baltimore’s innovation was the ... that it’s often the heavily African-American neighborhoods where this doesn’t exist. The ghetto was a deliberate policy invention, and investing in a ...

Baltimore neighborhoods plagued by blight are seeing improvements in cleanliness thanks to Clean Corps, a program funded by ...

Baltimore was one of five cities to take ... “You might assume that getting a chance to leave a ghetto neighborhood and move somewhere with poverty rates four times lower would have a profound ...