Home is supposed to be a place of comfort and safety, but tenants at the Hanover Square apartment complex in South Baltimore say their building has become anything but.
More than a dozen residents are suing their landlord, asking a court to allow them to place rent into escrow until they say serious problems are fixed.
Rent escrow is a legal process that lets tenants pay rent into a court-controlled account while a judge determines whether a landlord has made required repairs. They are suing under the Tenant Safety Act, passed in 2024, to force systemic, building‑wide remedies, not just patchwork repairs…