With process reopened, 26,000 people applied for Baltimore public housing in 10 days: ‘We know that there’s a need’

LaTonya Cunningham spends hours each day looking for housing. The 47-year-old is searching for something better than her current living arrangement, a basement room on North Fulton Avenue, where she sleeps on the floor on top of a blanket. When she wakes, she walks through neighborhoods in West Baltimore looking for rental signs with affordable prices. So when Cunningham heard that, for the first time in four years, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City was opening preliminary applications to get onto a waiting list for public housing, she promptly signed up.