A capital budget review – a generally sleepy sort of hearing – turned contentious on Friday as activists rose from the audience to press Baltimore Housing Commissioner Michael Braverman on what they said was an unkept promise:
Why was there no mention of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the 2019 capital spending plan for the Department of Housing and Community Development that Braverman had just reviewed, via a Power Point presentation, before the Planning Commission?
“My question to Commisisoner Braverman is about the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which was passed by voters more than a year ago with 180,000 voters in this city, and yet we have seen no funds put into it. That is unacceptable,” said Terrel Askew, of the Baltimore Housing Roundtable.
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