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2024 Legislative Session: HB832/SB839 and HB328 Bill Signing
On Thursday, May 16th, we celebrated as two of our priority bills from the 2024 Legislative Session were signed into law by Governor Moore. HB832/SB839, sponsored by Delegate Vaughn Stewart and Senator Charles Sydnor, allows nominal damages to be awarded for violations of consumer laws. HB328, sponsored by Delegate Lesley Lopez, prohibits Maryland hospitals from using geographic service area tests and non-monetary asset tests to deny income-eligible patients free or reduced cost care.
Protect Consumers from BGE Rate Hikes
On September 29, Economic Action Maryland and thirteen other organizations submitted a comment letter to the Public Service Commission opposing BGE's $602.4 million rate increase. The Public Service Commission needed to hear that many more citizens care about this rate hike that is not transparent, foists the costs of BGE’s infrastructure investments onto households and is likely to increase costs by $810 per household which will harm low-income, and disproportionately Black and Brown households throughout BGE’s footprint. Many households who are living paycheck to paycheck earn just above the threshold to qualify for assistance but certainly cannot afford to subsidize BGE’s ...
Poppleton Housing Complaint
Economic Action Maryland, along with Ms. Angela Banks, an African American member of Baltimore’s Poppleton community, have filed an administrative complaint with HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development) against Baltimore City, Mayor Brandon Scott, and the City Council for consistent violations of the Fair Housing Act. The complaint states the City’s redevelopment policies have violated the Fair Housing Act by displacing Black residents of Poppleton from the neighborhood and into more deeply segregated parts of Baltimore City as well as out of the city entirely. This continuous violation has gone on since at least 1975. The city has ...
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Land Grab: Why a Desperate City Kept Cutting Deals With a Developer Who Didn’t Deliver
Activists assisted residents of Baltimore's Poppleton neighborhood from losing their homes from a shady “redevelopment” deal. Read our Tenant Advocacy Director’s thoughts on development in Baltimore, and why redlining persists. Read the Baltimore Beat article here.
Helping Seniors Fight Economic Insecurity
Economic insecurity is a daily reality for thousands of seniors in Maryland living on fixed incomes and struggling to meet their obligations each month. Economic Action Maryland's SOAR Financial Counselor, Jamila Blake, is featured in The Baltimore Times discussing the work she does to aid and advocate for Maryland’s older adults. Read the article here You can get more information on our SOAR program here.