Baltimore: Perkins Homes

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City and the City of Baltimore were awarded a $30 million FY2017 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant for the Perkins, Somerset, and Oldtown neighborhoods – collectively referred to as the PSO neighborhood. Surrounded by key city destinations, a lack of historical investment, and the obsolete Perkin Homes public housing development has left the neighborhood behind while others have experienced rapid growth. However, through a planning process inspired by the Choice Neighborhoods model, the community has established a new vision for PSO. Guided by this vision, Baltimore will use the Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant and leverage commitments to develop vibrant, mixed-income housing; revive key commercial corridors; redevelop blighted properties; enhance public safety, and provide families with the tools they need to achieve
their personal goals.

HOUSING STABILITY

Through intense case management and strategic partnerships, we seek to follow the changes in the following items. Our dashboard highlights the data associated with the bold items:

• Families actively engaged in case management’
• Families in active case management completing a goal
• Adults in active case management completing a goal
• Families in active case management who have completed a goal related to housing stability
• Households with a decrease in risk score since baseline
• Households with a risk score higher than 100