Join us this season as we bring holiday cheer to Baltimore Highlands, one of the most overlooked and chronically neglected neighborhoods in Baltimore County’s District One.

Baltimore Highlands was among the first communities in the county to experience white flight, largely because of its proximity to the Cherry Hill housing project just across the city line. Yet despite decades of stigma and disinvestment, the irony is unmistakable: this neighborhood maintains an efficient, resilient tax base that outperforms some of the wealthiest streets in our district.

Still, residents here have endured challenges they never should have faced—most notably from corporate slum landlords, including properties owned by Jared Kushner’s family. Tenants have dealt with mold, substandard maintenance, and persistent rat problems, fueled in part by the absence of proper dumpsters. These conditions are exactly why I refused campaign money from the Multi-Family Housing Association, whose lobbying efforts excuse and protect this kind of unacceptable behavior.

But Baltimore Highlands is far more than a list of problems. It is a community full of strength, potential, and promise. It already has the bones of a great Main Street, two mass transit stops, and even waterfront access—yes, you can launch a boat straight into navigable water from here. Few neighborhoods can boast that combination of assets.

This holiday season, we’re inviting neighbors from across District One to come together, sing, lift spirits, and connect with a community that represents the true economic diversity—and the real needs—of our district.

✨ Come carol, come learn, come be part of something hopeful.
Baltimore Highlands deserves to be seen. And together, we can help it be heard.