Vacant, boarded-up houses line Winchester Street in Baltimore’s Rosemont neighborhood. On a recent day in August, a black bandanna was tied to the front porch of one house, a sign that a gang had claimed the property after its owners left. A neighbor told a reporter that he had called the police to take down the bandanna–although he expected that it would go up again after they took it down.
The foreclosure crisis has left Baltimore with thousands of vacant homes. Estimates range from 16,000 to 30,000, most in minority neighborhoods. The city’s attempts to maintain the properties as they fall into disrepair has not stopped squatters from moving in. And the diminishing tax base as property values plummet has strained an already cash-strapped city government.
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