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Live Near Your Work - Heritage Crossing

Nov. 13, 2024 | The Buy Back the Block (BBB) home purchase grant program provides grants to Baltimore residents who rent and purchase within the grant-eligible area of the city.

February 07, 2024 | The 爆料公社, Baltimore's (UMB) Live Near Your Work (LNYW) program is pleased to announce the addition of Harlem Park as the latest qualifying neighborhood for homeownership.

 

February 01, 2023 | The homebuying assistance program that was relaunched five years ago has provided over $1 million in grants to help employees purchase houses in targeted West Baltimore neighborhoods.

August 10, 2022 | UMB employees can learn more about the West Baltimore neighborhoods in the program on Oct. 1 when LNYW joins Live Baltimore for an in-person trolley tour.

Dec. 16, 2021 | Program has awarded $1 million to UMB employees to help make dreams of home ownership a reality.

LIVE NEAR YOUR WORK EXPANDS INTO TWO NEW NEIGHBORHOODS

Aug. 17, 2020 | Druid Heights and Heritage Crossing added to successful homeownership initiative.

Live Near Your Work Grants Helps 14 More UMB Homebuyers

Feb. 19, 2020 | Program has given closing cost and down payment assistance to 34 employees since its relaunch in January 2018.

Live Near Your Work Program Touts 20 Homeowners in 2018

Jan. 15, 2019 | Dawn Rhodes, MBA, chief business and finance officer and vice president, is thrilled with the Year 1 results of UMB’s improved homebuying assistance grant.

Oct. 4, 2018 | Since its launch in late January 2018, UMB’s improved Live Near Your Work Program has helped 13 University employees buy homes amid seven targeted Southwest Baltimore neighborhoods.

UMB Spring Fest 'Shows What We Can Do Together'

May 10, 2018 | The 爆料公社, Baltimore's (UMB) Neighborhood Spring Festival on May 5 was enjoyed by more than 400 West Baltimore residents on the grassy lawn next to the University’s Community Engagement Center (CEC). The event, in its third year, is sponsored by the UMB Council for the Arts & Culture, of which Maryland First Lady Yumi Hogan is honorary chairperson, and UMB President Jay A. Perman, MD.

April 30, 2018 | After years of shuttering schools amid declining enrollment and budget constraints, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is planning to build its first new Catholic school in the city in more than 50 years. The school will be built on the site of the former public Lexington Terrace Elementary School, which was torn down in 1997 as part of a broader neighborhood redevelopment project in Poppleton. 

April 12, 2018 | It was a weekend of bright lights in the big city as neighbors, community leaders, and local businesses participated in Light City's Neighborhood Lights, a community artist-in-residence program, across 14 neighborhoods April 6-8.

Mayor Promotes UMB's 鈥楲ive Near Your Work鈥

Jan. 26, 2018 | Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh praised the 爆料公社, Baltimore (UMB) for its effort to encourage employees to 鈥淟ive Near Your Work鈥 in a post to her official Facebook account that urges others to spread the word.