Patrick Semansky

Poverty in Baltimore

  • Children play basketball at a playground near blighted row houses in Baltimore. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 20 percent of American children are impoverished.
  • Two row houses, one boarded up, the other occupied, are surrounded by vacant lots at dusk in Baltimore. Baltimore has lost nearly a third of its population since it peaked in the 1950s, and today an estimated 16,000 buildings are vacant or abandoned.
  • Two young men walk through a neighborhood of vacant row houses in Baltimore.
  • A boy shoots a basketball into a makeshift basket made from a milk crate and attached to a blighted row house in Baltimore.
  • Women walk past blighted row houses in Baltimore.
  • A boy plays across the street from a partially collapsed row house in Baltimore.
  • A student walks past vacant row houses to a waiting school bus as school gets out for the day in Baltimore.
  • A pair of homeless men who gave their names as Earl, center, and Angelo eat ice cream cones across the street from a block of vacant row houses in Baltimore. A biennial census of Baltimore's homeless population counted over 4,000 homeless people in 2011. Some choose to seek shelter in the city's vacant buildings.
  • A homeless man who gave his name as Angelo displays a pin that holds his jaw together that he said he received after being beaten and robbed while sleeping in a vacant row house, seen behind him, in Baltimore.
  • A man walks past blighted row houses and vacant lots in Baltimore.
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