Episcopal Housing Corporation

Episcopal Housing Corporation is celebrating yesterday’s Baltimore Board of Estimates approval of the sale of 5 City owned properties to EHC and HCH Real Estate Co. for the Sojourner Place at Park project. The properties are at the intersection of W. Fayette Street, N. Liberty, and Park Avenues in Baltimore’s Five and Dine Historic District. This is a critical step moving Sojourner Place at Park towards a mid-2025 groundbreaking. The project will have 42 one-bedroom apartments and 800 square feet of retail space fronting the expanding Liberty Park, south of Fayette Street. Sojourner Place at Park will provide 28 units of permanent supportive housing for Baltimore residents exiting homelessness and 14 affordable units in a rapidly developing neighborhood. The Sojourner Place at Park sits at a transition point between the downtown business district and the revitalising west side, which includes the new Lexington market and the planned Compass project in the block immediately to our west. In addition to the City owned properties, the project will incorporate 111 Park Avenue where Health Care for the Homeless operated their main clinic for 20 years prior to moving to the Fallsway. We all know that housing is health care, so converting a former health clinic into housing for those exiting homelessness makes perfect sense.

On January 22 EHC and Heath Care for the Homeless representatives were joined by HUD National Office Field Policy & Management Senior Policy Advisor Cindy Nava and HUD Region III Administrator Mathew Heckles for a tour of Sojourner Place at Oliver for a discussion of our resident service model supporting our permanent supportive housing tenants.?We always appreciate the opportunity for an open and productive dialogue with our HUD partners on how policies and practice come together to serve the most vulnerable residents of Baltimore.

Episcopal Housing partnered with the Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation, and Early Light, to explore the beautiful community of Sojourner at Oliver. Sojourner at Oliver is "an innovative housing development (the first of its kind in both the city and state!) aimed at combating homelessness and providing quality affordable housing" for many people in Baltimore City.