Baltimore Renters United In The News
Mayor Brandon M. Scott, alongside Council President Nick Mosby and Councilman Odette Ramos, and surrounded by dozens of housing advocates and community partners, signed two historic inclusionary housing bills into law.
Baltimore Renters United Court Watch & BRU Advocacy in the Baltimore Beat
Baltimore Beat - Housing For All - October 2023
Baltimore Beat - The Lucrative Business of Rent Court - August 2023
Baltimore Beat - Baltimore Rent Courts stack the deck in favor of landlords - November 2022
Right To Counsel
Baltimore Brew: Rental assistance logjam in Baltimore is creating a wave of preventable evictions - September 2022
Baltimore Brew - Baltimore sheriff’s no-show comes amid calls to end “traumatizing” eviction practices - June 2022
WYPR - Rising post-moratorium evictions: tenant and landlord perspectives - January 2022
Maryland Matters - Fair Housing Advocates Urge Baltimore Officials to Stop Evictions Amid Omicron Surge - January 2022
Evictions & Rent Court
WMAR-2: City council passes bills to protect renters and end homelessness - November 2020
Baltimore Brew: Advocates urge rapid implementation of tenants’ right to counsel - December 2020
Maryland Matters - Hogan Urged to Sign Bill That Will Help Some Tenants Facing Eviction - April 2022
Tenant Organizing
Baltimore Sun: Baltimore residents call for renter assistance, action on campaign promises during annual Taxpayers’ Night - April 2023
WYPR: Advocates raise the alarm as emergency rental assistance dries up - March 2023
Baltimore Banner: Tenants live in dangerous, unsanitary conditions across Baltimore. A new bill would crack down on their landlords - February 2023
Baltimore Sun: Baltimore City Council bill calls for more inspections of apartment buildings with repeated code violations - February 2023
Baltimore Sun: Reservoir Hill tenants protest what they call poor housing conditions, unresponsive landlord: ‘This is unacceptable’ - August 2022
Nonprofit Quarterly: Building Tenant Power: A Growing Movement Rises in Baltimore - May 2022
WMAR: Group rallies in downtown Baltimore to call on city to reduce police budget and invest more communities - March 2022
WYPR: Baltimore housing advocates call for halt on evictions - January 2022
Baltimore Brew - “Doing this in the name of renters like myself and my family – that’s despicable” - April 2021