Baltimore residents say they want affordable housing, community resources

Baltimore – While politicians debate in the way of fighting crime in Baltimore, Maryland, local residents who spoke to Fox News Digital have pleaded for more affordable housing, recreational centers and accessible community resources.

Earlier this month, Governor Wes Moore and Mayor Brandon Scott deployed Maryland State police and the transport authority police to join the Baltimore police service after President Donald Trump floated in deployment of the US National Guard to spread crime.

“We have had so many children who embark on stuff and kill and drugs, especially here in this district on Le Penn North,” said Tasha, a young mother who spoke to Fox News Digital earlier this month while pushing her baby’s stroller in the Penn-North district of Baltimore.

Tasha said that more children needed access to leisure centers because “many of them connect to drugs and have taken things in which they are not caught, all that has nothing else to do.”

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Fox News Digital spoke to residents of the Penn-North district of Baltimore on how to combat the crime of the city while President Donald Trump floats in deployment of the National Guard. (Fox News Digital)

Fox News Digital spoke to more than a dozen Baltimore residents on the impact of their community crime. While The inhabitants were divided On the issue of whether Trump deployed the National Guard would limit crime, residents said the security problems were in the lead.

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More than two dozen people have been hospitalized in a Mass medication overdose event in Penn-North in July. In the meantime, Three of the seven homicides In Baltimore, in August, in the nearby park, according to local reports.

Between people who sell and consume drugs at the corner while a police car was parked just down the street, Tasha said that in Penn-North, “everything is back here as if it had not even happened a month ago.”

A lively street corner in the Baltimore district in Penn-North (Fox News Digital)

Joseph, a Penn-North resident who spoke to Fox News Digital during a homeless woman slept On its stockings, said that there were houses and buildings abandoned in his street and “everywhere”.

But Trayvon, another Baltimore room, asked: “How can you repair a place and not repair people?”

“If you are repairing this, everything you are going to do is make a place prettier to sell drugs,” he said.

Scott Graham, a republican who campaigned in 2022 for the Maryland delegate Chamber to represent the suburbs of Baltimore, said that high property taxes “discourage people from coming and buying” goods.

“We have vacant housing everywhere, and people hesitate to enter. This vacant accommodation is in areas where there is a high crime,” said Graham.

Buildings abandoned in the Baltimore district of Penn-North. (Fox News Digital)

Moore and Scott praised “historic discounts of violent crimes” in Baltimore, pointing to 91 homicides and 218 non -fatal shots in 2025, which, according to Scott, are 29.5% and 21% of declines.

But the statistics compiled by the non -profit research institute only show that the Baltimore murder rate in 2024 is still 6.8 times the average for all the metropolitan areas of the country and that if the murder rate remains the same as in 2024, around 1 in 38 people in the city will have their short life by murder during their lives.

The 17 inhabitants of Baltimore who spoke to Fox News Digital earlier this month were divided on the question of whether the deployment of the National Guard is the solution to their crime problems. While many feared that this increased tensions and inspires the riots, others said that the troops could serve as a crime deterrence.

“We just need to come back where we were when we came as a child, where everyone gathered and that everyone worked together, and they distant people from the blocks, and they did the clean blocks, and they did all these things,” said Ronette, a Baltimore resident. “Our city just came to a point where we are just, it’s everyone for himself. No one is working together.”

Trump has signed a memorandum this month establishing a working group to fight crime in Memphis, Tennessee, similar to its current repression on crime in Washington, DC

He said the effort includes the deployment of the national guard, the FBI, the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives office, Drug Encompement Administration, surveys on internal security and immigration and customs application.

Last month, Trump mobilized 800 DC National Guard troops To reduce crime in the national capital. Other troops of the Ohio National Guard, Virginia-Western, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee were sent to support the repression of the crime.

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In addition to Baltimore, Trump also launched deployment troops from Chicago and Oakland, but the plans met the resistance of the Democrats.

Diana Stacy of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.