The third large stakeholder meeting of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council's 2025 Baltimore Regional Fair Housing Analysis will be gathering in person over lunch on Tuesday, October 1 at the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center in Columbia. Lunch is 11:30 a.m. and the meeting is noon. Please register on the project page and indicate your lunch preference if you can join in person. If you need to join remotely, you can register on Zoom.
"At this meeting we will hear again from our working groups on Enforcement in the Private Market, Housing Supply and Siting of Affordable Housing, and Fair Housing Barriers for Renters. We will also review the most relevant new data from our consultants at Root Policy Research, and we are likely to start discussing potential action steps.
The site for our meeting was formerly Harriet Tubman High School, a segregated school for Black Howard County residents built in the late 1940s near a local Black community. The school closed when Howard County had fully integrated its schools -- one grade at a time -- in 1965, eleven years after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Harriet Tubman High School was never integrated. Now the school building is a County historical, cultural, and educational center, hosting camps and visits and featuring hybrid meeting capability for gatherings like this one. It also has historical displays and rooms that document key aspects of Howard County's history. We encourage you to come early or stay afterwards and take a look around. If there is enough interest, we may try to organize an informal tour before or after the meeting.
Please let us know if you can join us, either in person or remotely on October 1. And feel free to reach out to me at dpontious@baltometro.org with any questions. I am out this week, but can get back to you next week. We hope to see you October 1!"
Baltimore Metropolitan Council
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Baltimore, Maryland 21230
