Help Advance Fair Housing in the Baltimore Region!

By Nick Adjami
August 7, 2024

Do you live in the Baltimore metropolitan area (including Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Hartford County, and Howard County)? Take this survey to tell local leaders about your housing needs and experiences living in the region!

A coalition of local governments and housing authorities are working together with the Baltimore Metropolitan Council to identify barriers to fair housing across the region. Your survey answers will help inform the region’s plan to ensure everyone can access safe, affordable housing in their neighborhood of choice.

The survey is available in English and Spanish. The survey is confidential and will take about 10 minutes to complete. Participants will have the chance to win a $100 gift card!

If you have a housing voucher and would be willing to share more about your experience trying to find housing, email hello@rootpolicy.org to join a focus group. The group will help ensure the final plan appropriately addresses the needs of individuals with housing vouchers.

Participating governments and agencies include:

• City of Annapolis and the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis
• Anne Arundel County and the Housing Commission of Anne Arundel County
• City of Baltimore and the Housing Authority of Baltimore City
• Baltimore County
• Harford County and the Havre de Grace Housing Authority
• Howard County and the Howard County Housing Commission

If you have questions or would like to request a reasonable accommodation to help you complete the survey, email lucy@rootpolicy.com or call 970-880-1415 x102.

Local leaders need your help to make fair, affordable housing a reality for everyone in the Baltimore region. It’s crucial that as many people as possible participate to ensure no one’s needs are overlooked. Take the survey now!

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The Equal Rights Center (ERC) — a national non-profit organization — is a civil rights organization that identifies and seeks to eliminate unlawful and unfair discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations in its home community of Greater Washington DC and nationwide. The ERC’s core strategy for identifying unlawful and unfair discrimination is civil rights testing. When the ERC identifies discrimination, it seeks to eliminate it through the use of testing data to educate the public and business community, support policy advocacy, conduct compliance testing and training, and, if necessary, take enforcement action. For more information, please visit www.equalrightscenter.org.

The work that provided the basis for this publication was supported by funding under a grant with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The substance and findings of the work are dedicated to the public. The author and publisher are solely responsible for the accuracy of the statements and interpretations contained in this publication. Such interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Government.