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Perkins Homes (originally Clarence Perkins Homes) is a public housing development in Southeast Baltimore, located between Fells Point and Little Italy and bounded by Pratt Street to the north, Eden Street on the west, Dallas Street on the east, and Bank Street to the south. The housing development was named after Clarence W. Perkins. The community is located within the East Harbor Empowerment Zone of the Fells Point area, and is one of the oldest housing projects in southeast Baltimore. The housing project tenants are about 91% African-American, 7% Puerto Rican, and 2% white.

The housing project, originally built in 1940 called for 688 family units City Springs Elementary School is located at South Caroline and East Pratt Streets. Lombard Junior High School and First Apostolic Institution Church are nearby.

In 2019, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City received $30 million in federal funding to demolish Perkins Homes. Current plans are for a new mixed-use community of replacement public housing and market rate apartments.

In the media
In Homicide: Life on the Street, fictional detective Al Giardello was raised in the Perkins Homes, as it was the neighborhood inhabited by his mother's side of the family. Giardello's father's side of the family was from the neighboring Little Italy. The Perkins Homes are also mistakenly shown as the now-demolished Flaghouse Homes.