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Poll: More Marylanders worried about cost of housing

In a survey conducted before the Key Bridge collapse, Maryland voters overall grew more pessimistic about the state’s direction and cite rising concerns on crime and affordable housing

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April 6, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
A statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall in front of the Maryland State House, which is under renovation. (Michael Robinson Chávez for The Washington Post)
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Maryland voters are increasingly concerned with the cost of housing, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds.

Nearly 1 in 5 registered voters cite affordable housing as the state’s top problem, up from 13 percent in 2019 to 19 percent in March. Roughly 3 in 4 voters say Maryland housing is “extremely expensive” or “very expensive,” including most voters in every region of the state. In Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore region of the state, affordable housing outpaces crime as voters’ top worry.