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Baltimore Slumlord Watch has called out 700+ absentee landlords [Atlantic]

Baltimore Slumlord Watch founder Carol Ott still highlights nearly two dozen properties in her more active weeks, five years after launching her new media watchdog effort.

Carol Ott.

Baltimore Slumlord Watch founder Carol Ott still highlights nearly two dozen properties in her more active weeks, five years after launching her new media watchdog effort. That growing effort has put her at more than 700 deeply researched assessments of blight in Baltimore.
So says this Atlantic Cities report, which comes from our own Andrew Zaleski.
Find our first Q&A with her here, and watch this follow-up video report on Ott published by The Atlantic this month.
[Atlantic Cities]
 

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