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The Buy Back the Block (BBB) home purchase grant program recently expanded the number of eligible neighborhoods.

The Buy Back the Block (BBB) home purchase grant program provides grants to Baltimore residents who rent and purchase within the grant-eligible area of the city.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore's (UMB) Live Near Your Work (LNYW) program is pleased to announce the addition of Harlem Park as the latest qualifying neighborhood for homeownership.

February 01, 2023 | The homebuying assistance program that was relaunched five years ago has provided over $1 million in grants to help employees purchase houses in targeted West Baltimore neighborhoods.

UMB employees can learn more about the West Baltimore neighborhoods in the program on Oct. 1 when LNYW joins Live Baltimore for an in-person trolley tour.

Dec. 16, 2021 | Program has awarded $1 million to UMB employees to help make dreams of home ownership a reality.

Druid Heights and Heritage Crossing added to successful homeownership initiative.

Feb. 19, 2020 | Program has given closing cost and down payment assistance to 34 employees since its relaunch in January 2018.

Jan. 15, 2019 | Dawn Rhodes, MBA, chief business and finance officer and vice president, is thrilled with the Year 1 results of UMB’s improved homebuying assistance grant.

May 10, 2018 | The University of Maryland, Baltimore's (UMB) Neighborhood Spring Festival on May 5 was enjoyed by more than 400 West Baltimore residents on the grassy lawn next to the University’s Community Engagement Center (CEC). The event, in its third year, is sponsored by the UMB Council for the Arts & Culture, of which Maryland First Lady Yumi Hogan is honorary chairperson, and UMB President Jay A. Perman, MD.

After years of shuttering schools amid declining enrollment and budget constraints, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is planning to build its first new Catholic school in the city in more than 50 years. The school will be built on the site of the former public Lexington Terrace Elementary School, which was torn down in 1997 as part of a broader neighborhood redevelopment project in Poppleton.

Jan. 26, 2018 | Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh praised the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) for its effort to encourage employees to “Live Near Your Work” in a post to her official Facebook account that urges others to spread the word.