Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD)

The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development is looking for an Energy Quality Assurance Specialist to join our team! Help drive Maryland’s affordable housing and energy efficiency goals by evaluating project performance and ensuring quality standards are met. Apply by April 24. https://lnkd.in/e-cKjPfK

The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development is hiring a Project Manager Team Lead to oversee a team advancing energy efficiency and housing affordability through the Multifamily Energy Efficiency and Housing Affordability program. Apply by April 21. https://lnkd.in/e58qVGd2

Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day today joined officials from the Charles County Military Alliance Council, the United States Bomb Technician Association (USBTA), Charles County and the Town of Indian Head to celebrate $200,000 in State Revitalization Program funding for the development of the Maryland Technology Center. The event was the third in a series of five events across the state touting the department’s historic $129.5 million in Fiscal Year 2025 State Revitalization Program awards. “The Maryland Technology Center is a force for economic rejuvenation, bringing technology development, workforce training and cutting-edge research to Indian Head and all of Southern Maryland,” said Secretary Day. “This project is a leading example of what can be borne out of strong collaboration between the state, local government, and nonprofit partners. The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development is proud to support the Maryland Technology Center and its strong impact on the region. The Maryland Technology Center contains training space and nearly 5,000 square feet of lab space for research, development testing and evaluation. The 30,000-square-foot facility, which was formerly a grocery store and CVS Pharmacy, serves as USBTA’s headquarters and houses several other businesses and contractors. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4cxpOgF

DHCD Secretary Jake Day spent Thursday discussing the effect of housing on Maryland’s economy and how the department’s State Revitalization Programs, housing programs and policy, the Reinvest Baltimore initiative, and other DHCD activities are fueling place-based and economic growth-oriented investment. In the morning, Secretary Day served as keynote speaker at The BWI Business Partnership, Inc. Partnership Signature Breakfast event in Hanover before traveling to Rockville, where he participated in the “Resources from State and Local Government Agencies” panel during the 2025 Maryland Asian American Business Conference. During the panel, he shared ways DHCD supports women- and minority-owned businesses through a variety of grants and business loans.

DHCD’s Day Trip tour series is back! On Wednesday, Secretary Jake Day met with public officials from Caroline County and several of its towns, then walked Denton’s Main Street area and met with business owners and other community stakeholders to learn about what’s affecting their area and how the department can help. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3RaJ1eo

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The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development is seeking a passionate, strategic leader to join our team as Deputy Director of Just Communities. In this pivotal role, you’ll work alongside the Assistant Secretary of Just Communities to advance racial equity and social justice through statewide initiatives, data strategies, and community-driven partnerships. Help shape agency-wide impact and reverse the legacy of disinvestment in Maryland’s marginalized communities. Be part of building Just Communities for all. 🔗 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eCAp9a7d

On Friday, DHCD Secretary Jake Day joined Governor Wes Moore, Lieutenant Governor Aruna K. Miller, State Labor Secretary Portia Wu and State Commerce Secretary Harry Coker in Stevensville for a tour of Paul Reed Smith Guitars’ manufacturing facility. PRS Guitars is the third largest electric guitar manufacturer in the United States and its state-of-the-art instrument and amplifier factory is Queen Anne’s County’s largest private-sector employer—with nearly 500 employees. During the tour, the group heard about the company’s intention to continue their work in partnership with the state to offer additional workforce training resources, as well as initiatives to address workforce housing needs.

DHCD Secretary Jake Day was in Columbia today to join Howard County Executive Calvin Ball, as well as other public officials and community leaders, to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Performing Arts Center & Artists Flats project. This groundbreaking, nearly 15 years in the making, marks the start of construction on the first public facility called for in the 2010 Downtown Columbia Plan. The performing arts center portion of the project will contain one 340-seat dinner theater, two 200-seat black box theaters, a public art gallery and several dance studios and performance classrooms.  The Artists Flats portion of the facility will include 174 mixed-income units serving a full spectrum of household incomes and has received support through several DHCD programs.

On Wednesday, March 26th, DHCD hosted an All Partners Meeting at the Westin in downtown Annapolis for the Youth Homelessness Systems Improvement program, a $2 million HUD-funded initiative aimed at preventing and ending youth homelessness. The meeting brought together partners from nine of Maryland's ten Continuums of Care (CoCs), youth action board members with lived expertise, and representatives from seven state agencies, including the Department of Juvenile Services, the Department of Service and Civic Innovation, the Department of Health’s Behavioral Services Administration, the State Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and the Governor's Office for Children. The agenda included morning sessions for local planning and partnership development within CoCs and across state agencies, followed by project-level workgroup planning in the afternoon, leveraging the expertise of nearly 80 partners in attendance. This meeting was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.