Nearly two years after fumbling more than $10 million in federal homeless services funds, officials have approved Baltimore’s request to recoup much of the lost money. Mayor Brandon Scott told reporters last week that officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development informed City Hall that it had approved the request to get reimbursed for more than $6 million in grant funds the city received in the 2020 fiscal year — money the city had forfeited after blowing a deadline to send in the reimbursement forms.
