Bullish on bringing the middle class back to Baltimore | Baltimore Sun

MCB Co-founder P. David Bramble is adamant that “[we need to give people a reason to have hope for economic prosperity in Baltimore…We need to make investments in disinvested communities that signal our desire to attract middle class families into our neighborhoods and do it in a way that allows everyone to prosper in mixed income neighborhoods. Tax incentives are certainly a powerful tool, but they are not the whole story. Given how distressed some of these areas are, we need new financing tools. We need methods to help with the appraisal gap [of homes] until the market functions properly and we need specific strategies to make sure we protect legacy residents…