Housing

Scope and Contents

The collection documents the actions and business of the Butchers Hill Association, a neighborhood civic group in southeast Baltimore City, from the late 1970s through 2020. Topics addressed within the collection include: land use, redevelopment, drug activity, vacant housing, absentee landlords, citizen inspectors, the Baltimore City Fair, work with the Community Law Center and SECO, Patterson Park improvements, and annual events like flea markets, open houses, and garden tours.

Scope and Contents

The Concerned Citizens for Butchers Hill Records documents the history and functions of the community organization between 1977 and 1997. Materials are mainly textual and include articles of incorporation, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, publications, deeds, grants, and subject files relating to neighborhood and homeownership topics. Some subjects of note include tenants issues, rent, property taxes, section 8 housing, construction, zoning, and mortages.

Scope and Contents “Divided Baltimore: How Did We Get Here, Where Do We Go?”: A course taught by veteran University of Baltimore faculty members and guest lecturers in both face-to-face and online formats for undergraduate and graduate students during the fall semester of 2015. The course focused on a broad-based, multi-disciplinary approach to address Baltimore’s long-standing issues regarding segregation and inequalities.The topic of section 1: How did Baltimore get to be so segregated?...

Scope and Contents The Health and Welfare Council of Maryland Records includes documents and materials created and used by the organization in their work regarding health, welfare, and other social services in Baltimore. The collection includes reports, agency files, board of directors meeting minutes, committee meeting minutes, and newsletters. Notably, the Reports series includes the organization's studies for a large variety of health and social welfare issues and groups in Baltimore. The Agency Files...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the Model Urban Neighborhood Demonstration between 1967 and 1974. Collection materials document the work of the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Neighborhood Development Corporation in relation to their work with MUND including committee work, and neighborhood projects, programs, and services. Materials are mainly textual and include policy papers, master plan, budget proposals, area socioeconomic surveys, project status reports, personnel...

Content Description

The collection contains audiovisual documentation of the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood in West Baltimore from 1986 to 2015. The photographic images and video footage represent a significant community-based perspective on neighborhood life, specifically related to the building of houses by community members in coordination with the Christian nonprofit, Habitat for Humanity.