Author Archives: Roz Hamlett

For many sick, unemployed, and otherwise cash-strapped homeowners, the prospect of losing one’s home feels like the end of the world. But there is light at the end of the tunnel say housing counselors, and in most instances, a much better life can come after the foreclosure. “I think the emotional and mental aspects of […]

The cascading effects of the ongoing foreclosure crisis on Maryland’s economy, especially in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County communities, continue. However, housing counseling and financial literacy services are essential footholds for distressed homeowners seeking to avoid foreclosure and create successful outcomes. “If a foreclosure goes all the way through the process, then a vacant […]

(Updated 4/4/2014) With the end of the 2014 session of the General Assembly next week, and as legislators return home to focus more energy on their districts, a hotly-contested battle is shaping up in Maryland’s 40th legislative district in a 10-person race that is pitting veteran incumbents against a long list of motivated challengers. The […]

As violence and fear encroach upon schools and shopping malls even in the sleepiest of Baltimore’s suburbs, so has the stark reality that crime is everywhere, and that faith leaders and communities must abandon their own apathy first in order to change anything. Gone are the years of so-called zero tolerance policing during the 1990s […]

When the news about the prophecy was fully revealed, the roll call room at the Eastern District police station momentarily became eerily quiet. As the emotional impact of the experience was slowly absorbed throughout the room, the Baltimore faith leaders and law enforcement officers attending that meeting in early October 2008 were astonished, and even […]