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Addressing the housing shortage is complicated, and legislative solutions range from incentivizing development of affordable housing units to protecting renters from unnecessary evictions.

State secretary of Housing and Community Development promises ‘a surge year for policymaking.’

Tenants and advocates are calling on lawmakers to do more to protect tenants in the final days of the 2022 General Assembly session —…

Maryland has a higher eviction filing rate — and lower filing fees — than surrounding states, which leads to “serial eviction filings,” AG says.

With hundreds of evictions scheduled in Baltimore this week, advocates urged city officials to temporarily delay evictions.

Baltimore became one of only a few local governments in the country to guarantee tenants the legal right to counsel in eviction cases last…

A proposal to guarantee low-income tenants the right to counsel against retaliatory evictions passed out of the Maryland House of Delegates Thursday after fierce…

Months after the Centers for Disease Control issued a nationwide halt on certain evictions, advocates and lawyers say the order isn’t helping all Maryland…

Advocates in Maryland were pleasantly surprised when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide moratorium on evictions Tuesday — but they…

With more than 200,000 Maryland households at risk of eviction after failure-to-pay rent cases resumed in the state’s courts on Monday, state lawmakers are…