September 2, 2025
Originally published by WBAL-TV 11
Mac McComas, senior program manager at Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative, explained the report’s findings.
“What we found was that, despite the Black Butterfly containing two-thirds of the population of Baltimore City, they received less than one-third of the amount of loans… Your average White L neighborhood received five times the amount of loans that your average Black Butterfly neighborhood did.”