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The Echo House Multi-Service Center has provided services to support families in Southwest Baltimore City for four decades. Echo House is located at the infamous Corner, which has been immortalized in the book written by David Simon and Ed Burns as well as made into a Mini Series for television. Echo House is mentioned briefly in that book. Echo House, located at 1705 W. Fayette Street, is located in one of the heaviest drug trafficking and substance abusing areas of Baltimore City.

Echo House is located in one of the poorest communities in Baltimore. In our immediate area, Franklin Square, the average person’s income was less than $15,000 per year. Over 75 percent of residents did not graduate from high school and only three percent of individuals graduated from college. Single mothers headed the majority of families.

Echo House concentrates on providing services to residents of the following communities: Boyd-Booth, Carrollton Ridge, Fayette Street Outreach, Franklin Square and New Southwest. There are two parts to the Southwest Cluster:

Starting at Saratoga and Bentalou Streets, East on Saratoga to Monroe, north on Monroe to Mulberry, East on Mulberry to S. Carey Street, South on S. Carey Street to Booth Street, West on Booth to N. Gilmor, North on N. Gilmor to Frederick, Southwest on Frederick to S. Calverton Street, Northwest on S. Calverton to Lexington to Bentalou, North on Bentalou to Saratoga.
Starting at W. Pratt and Bentalou Streets, East on W. Pratt to S Carey Street, South on S. Carey to the B& O Railroad tracks, to Catherine Street, North on Catherine Street to Wilkens Avenue, East on Wilkens to Bentalou, North on Bentalou to W. Pratt Street.