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Disingenuous realtors
[Jody] Landers, executive director of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors, is opposed to a recommendation by the Baltimore City Task Force on Inclusionary Zoning and Housing that would require builders to designate a certain number of units in new development as affordable, and offer the units for sale to residents earning less than $60,000 for a family of four.
“There is a lot of affordable housing in Baltimore City,” Landers said.
Citing numbers from the Multiple Listing Service for the city, Landers said 1,200 homes currently on the market are offered at less than $150,000.
Landers conveniently neglects the details, which is that most of these 1,200 properties are in horrible neighborhoods, and/or uninhabitable. It's easy to talk about rehabbing houses, and quite another thing to actually do it. Especially in less-than-desirable (read: affordable) neighborhoods, where building materials and tools disappear into the hands of drug addicts the moment your back is turned. Of course, this claptrap is no surprise, coming from someone representing an industry built on half-truths, deception and outright lying.