Mayor Pugh Creates Task Force For ‘Safe Art Spaces’

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Just weeks after Baltimore condemned the Bell Foundry building, evicting city artists, Mayor Catherine Pugh has formed a new task force.
Their goal? To find safe spaces for artists in the city.
Pugh says she wants to avoid a tragedy, like the warehouse fire in Oakland, which claimed 36 lives.
Days after that deadly blaze, artists living and working in Bell Foundry were told to pack their bags.
Housing inspectors tell WJZ the building wasn’t coded for people to live