In Southeast Baltimore, a nonprofit struggles to buy vacant homes from investors

Kari Snyder really didn’t want to spend $62,000 on this vacant rowhouse. She was on vacation last summer in a beach town and was supposed to be eating dinner with her family when a middleman called her. The boarded-up house in Southeast Baltimore was on the verge of collapsing, and he had the contract to sell it. Snyder couldn’t stomach another investor swooping in, buying the home, and sitting on it.