Baltimore Slumlord Watch blogger needs $5K for housing policy work

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Earlier this year Baltimore Slumlord Watch blogger Carol Ott launched a second website, Housing Policy Watch, to augment the work she was doing documenting the city’s vacant houses and the absentee landlords who neglect their derelict properties.
Read Technical.ly Baltimore’s 2012 Q&A with Ott here.
The new site’s mission is two-fold.

1. It’s part-educational — for instance, explaining to tenants and landlords the intricacies of housing law and what’s required by each party when they enter into a rental agreement.
2. The other part is more advocacy-based: helping Baltimore’s residents and community groups clean up their neighborhoods and fix up blighted properties.

Ott is now raising $5,000 on GiveCorps to help neighborhoods with a variety of projects, including trash abatement and alley-gating.
Donate to Housing Policy Watch’s GiveCorps campaign here.