FIRST (AND ONLY) HEARING IN FEDERAL COURT
WAS COMPLETED ON MONDAY, JUNE 23rd, 2025
(at the Federal District Courthouse, 101 W Lombard St, Baltimore)

The Result of that Hearing:
The case moved forward - ultimately to settlement with the Mayor.
Read the judge’s summary judgment ruling: HERE

Eco & Maryland Legal Aid -
Pursuing a Landmark Legal Settlement Against the City

The Key Claim: The tax sale system, as it’s constructed, is unconstitutional.

Why do we care about Tax Sale?

Because in addition to the byzantine rules of the sale facilitating highly-sophisticated investors to rip the equity life-savings out of lesser-sophisticated, low-income communities, it also tangles and clouds titles of vacant properties so terribly that it makes them, in many cases, too onerous to acquire and develop.

AND THAT IS HOW YOU GET 15-30,000 VACANT PROPERTIES.

We’re hoping to change that with this case.

Read an in-depth explanation here.

Read the Complaint as filed here.

• Early Spring: getting and combing City government tax sale lists for at-risk Midtown-Edmondson residents

• Spring: Outreach - flyers, meetings and 50 homes door-knocked in advance of the this year’s tax sale

• All Year: Pushing anyone and everyone who’ll listen for a more commonsense, fundamentally fair, City Tax Sale system