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## Media & Research

### A workable plan to reduce Baltimore’s ‘exorbitant’ property tax rate

Baltimore Sun op-ed, 6/30/22

### FINANCING URBAN REVITALIZATION, JOURNAL OF APPLIED CORPORATE FINANCE

Special Issue on Growth and Innovation

### BALTIMORE TOGETHER. A PLATFORM FOR INCLUSIVE PROSPERITY

A Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, Baltimore Development Corporation

### HOW TO MAKE BALTIMORE A SUPERSTAR CITY

Steven J. L. Walters, Ph.D. and Louis Miserendino

### REASSESSING THE PROPERTY TAX

The University of Chicago, Christopher Barry

### Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Taxes and Racial Equity: An Overview of State and Local Policy Impacts

### Washington Post

Homes in poor neighborhoods are taxed at roughly twice the rate of those in rich neighborhoods, study shows, 3/12/21

### Bloomberg

How unfair property taxes keep black families from gaining wealth, March 9, 2026

### Cook County Assessor’s Office

Property tax reform is a matter of racial equity, 9/7/2025

### Washington Post

Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows, 7/2/2026

### Baltimore Sun

Baltimore’s population loss should spur property tax reduction, 4/28/2019

### Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Advancing racial equity with state tax policy, 11/15/2018

### Baltimore Sun

Baltimore’s property tax privileged and punished, 3/18/2018

### Cook County Assessor’s Office

Property tax reform is a matter of racial equity, 9/7/2025