It’s annoying how every politician in HoCo falls back on anyone who is in any way associated with developers is evil. Developers are neither good or bad, every development project needs to be looked at individually on its merits. On top of that, MD has a huge housing shortage and we do need developers to build more homes. Ideally more diverse types of home such as apartments, townhomes etc, so middle class folks can afford them not just endless McMansions contributing to sprawl.

Tying minimum wage to housing costs…that’s a really fascinating idea. Any research/papers on that?

Thanks for sharing, I’ve wondered what roadblocks people faced in developing or rehabbing these properties. What percentage of people working in the business actually get W2?

It’s going to cost over 100k to rehab each vacant, unless the city or the immigrants have that money, it’s not financially possible.