Start your homebuying quest with a Trolley Tour and a Live Near Your Work webinar

Considering buying a home in Baltimore City? The Johns Hopkins Live Near Your Work program offers grants of up to $17,000 toward a down payment and closing costs associated with buying a house in designated Baltimore City neighborhoods. Take advantage of this program—as did Ashley Cleveland, senior program adviser for the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation—by getting started with these two upcoming events.

Live Baltimore Spring 2025 Trolley Tour

Live Baltimore is hosting its Spring 2025 Trolley Tour, a free event open to all buyers at all stages of the homebuying process, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 1400 W. Cold Spring Lane.

At this event, you can explore 10+ neighborhoods on a narrated tour of Northwest Baltimore, connect with real estate professionals and community organizations, and learn more about the homebuying process and incentives that may be available to you. (Note: Some neighborhoods featured on the tour may not be eligible for the Hopkins LNYW grant because they fall outside the program boundary lines.)

Following the event, eligible attendees can apply for a $5,000 incentive award from Buying Into Baltimore and be entered into a lottery. Additional details and incentives can be found on the Live Baltimore website.

Click here to register for this free event.

Live Baltimore offers incentives that may be used in addition to the Johns Hopkins Live Near Your Work grant program; to learn more about eligibility, grant amounts, neighborhood boundaries, and the application process, register for the webinar below.

Live Near Your Work webinar: What Are the Rules and How to Apply

Join this live webinar from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, to learn the ins and outs of the Live Near Your Work home-buying grant available for specific Baltimore City neighborhoods. Specialist Jeremy Hornberger will cover eligibility requirements, application steps, homeownership counseling information, qualifying neighborhoods and grant amounts, and the conditions of the program. Register here.

To learn more about the program, visit the university's HR website. Call 410-516-2000 or email worklife@jhu.edu with questions not answered there.

Since 2009, Johns Hopkins University and Health System have provided more than $10 million to 1,500-plus employees through the Live Near Your Work program.