Occupants will now have more time to settle overdue taxes.
The move does not forgive any debt, but it gives thousands of homeowners at least a year to get caught up on their past-due taxes before winding up again on the tax sale list.
“It could very well be my parents or my aunts or my uncles or folks who have worked their whole lives in Baltimore,” Scott said. “This is about making sure that we are protecting people who have done so much for the city and stuck with the city.” John Kern of the Stop Oppressive Seizures Fund is one of the advocates who had called on the mayor to act on the tax sale. He said he and other advocates are “overjoyed” at the decision to remove owner-occupied homes from the tax sale.
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