Revitalization

Census Bureau: The Digital Divide – Broadband Usage Across the Nation

States on the Pacific Coast and most of those in the Northeast such as New Hampshire and Massachusetts had higher levels of broadband internet use compared to the national average (77 percent), according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report on Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2015. These tended to be the…

HUD: East Baltimore Redevelopment Earns 2017 HUD Secretary’s Award for Historic Preservation

WASHINGTON – For years, dozens of historic rowhouses in an East Baltimore neighborhood sat vacant, boarded up and crumbling from neglect while nearby families were in need of affordable housing. Then, a $9.3 million redevelopment project rehabilitated 32 vacant rowhouses into beautiful affordable housing homes complete witha coffee shop and a workforce development center inside…