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Baltimore committee holds oversight hearing on "whole-block" strategy for vacant properties
Summary
The House and Economic Development Committee heard agency officials describe the mayor's Reframe Baltimore whole-block strategy, tools (receivership, fixed pricing, bundling), disposition timelines (BOE 120 days, typical 90-day settlement), staffing and compliance measures to return vacant properties to productive use.
Baltimore City's House and Economic Development Committee held an oversight hearing on LO 25029 on Aug. 18, 2025, to review the city's "whole-block" strategy for vacant and abandoned properties and the timeline for taking properties through acquisition and disposition.
Chair James Torrance opened the meeting and said he supports the approach as a way to redress historic discrimination and bring investment to redlined communities. "Often I always tell people in government that we need to be innovative and bold, and I will say that this is both bold and innovative," Torrance said in his opening remarks.
Commissioner Kennedy of the Department of Housing and Community Development told the committee that the mayor's Reframe Baltimore strategy is a $3,000,000,000 initiative to reduce vacant properties over the next 15 years and that whole-block planning treats blocks…
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