Mike Sante, managing editor for the website focusing on consumer finances, said the Baltimore metropolitan
area — defined for this report as including the city, five surrounding counties and Queen Anne's County — rose
in the ranking
because median home prices fell by nearly 3 percent while
median income rose about 2 percent.
Vinson, the city planner, defends the low -
income units that were built, arguing that
because of the way the
income limits are controlled, 75 percent of residents of Covington could qualify to live
in the homes built with Neighborhood Stabilization funds (some of the homes must go to low -
income families, the rest can go to families earning up to 120 percent of
area -
median income).