'Affordable' Housing Remains Out of Reach for Full-Time Working Families [CityLab.com]
For Baltimore’s Project C.O.R.E. urban redevelopment plan , the state of Maryland is offering up hundreds of millions of dollars to seduce investors into developing some of the city’s most blighted corridors. The challenge for those developers will be to find ways to ensure that new and renovated housing is affordable for low-wage earners. “Affordable,” however, has long-ago become an elusive target, especially in cities like Baltimore where both poverty and housing costs are out of control.