Day: Could Salisbury’s ‘Here is Home’ program be the solution to Maryland’s housing crisis?

For seven years I’ve served as mayor of Salisbury — my hometown — a fast-growing, young and diverse city of 35,000 people, anchoring the Salisbury Metropolitan Area of 428,000 on the Delmarva Peninsula. In May 2021, I returned from a year-long deployment to East Africa. The call from Uncle Sam meant that I had to leave my city at a most critical time. I came home to numerous challenges. Some of them I anticipated: economic recovery, public health protection, racial justice and criminal justice reform.