Mapping the Density of Baltimore's Vacant-Housing Crisis [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/28/1512:00 PM

There are more than 16,000 vacant houses in Baltimore. Vacants are both densely pocketed inside the city and widespread across its boundaries.

That’s the at-a-glance takeaway from a new interactive map of the Baltimore metropolitan area by Amine Ouazad, an economist at INSEAD. Vacant houses are not a Baltimore County problem, though. They’re almost exclusively Baltimore City’s problem.

Ouazad built a map of census tracts for the entire Baltimore metropolitan area using American Community Survey data. This interactive map shows the number of housing units in each neighborhood alongside the vacancy rate. In some Baltimore neighborhoods—in too many of them—the vacancy rate amounts to one-third of the total housing or more.

[For more of this story, written by Kriston Capps, go to http://www.citylab.com/housing...using-crisis/394196/]

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