Stella Canino-Quinones

Stella Canino-Quinones is a Baltimore Sun summer intern on the investigative desk. She has previously worked for The Diamondback, El Vocero de Puerto Rico and The Washington Diplomat. Stella is fluent in English and Spanish.

Affordable housing units at Albemarle Square in Baltimore are pictured on Thursday. The complex is among those that could be affected by a Trump administration proposal to cap housing vouchers at two years for able-bodied adults. (Nia Meyers/Staff)

Time limiting Section 8: Will it help or hurt Maryland renters?

July 28, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Housing and rental experts say the Trump administration’s proposal restricting federal rental assistance to two years for able-bodied adults will put low-income people at risk of losing their housing in...

A mother and daughter who found shelter in a Maryland safe house enjoy the afternoon together. The number of homeless students rose by 24% over the past six years in Maryland as federal funds allocated to students are being rolled back. (Lloyd Fox/Staff)

Maryland homeless students feel the brunt of housing unaffordability

July 21, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

In Harford County, a mother and 11-year-old daughter fleeing domestic violence moved to a Baltimore-area safe house in March. They had been homeless for more than a year.

Image of interactive map showing percentage of public school students who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

Maryland homeless students increase by a quarter in past 6 years

July 14, 2025 at 5:16 a.m.

The number of homeless students in Maryland has risen by 24% over six years thanks to soaring rents and improved identification of students facing housing instability, according to Maryland education...

Union On Knox, a new apartment complex looms in front of College Park Towers that rises to the left, a brick building that is slated for demolition by the beginning of 2026 in a view from College Park City Hall, which has no legal or binding option to legislate any laws in Prince Georges County. The situation regarding affordable student housing has placed University of Maryland students in a financial bind. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)

University of Maryland students feel the pinch of off-campus rents

July 7, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.

UMD off-campus rents have increased in College Park with students feeling the pinch in their pockets.

Exterior of Shoppers Food and Pharmacy at Mondawmin Mall. A cyber attack against an organic food supplier has impacted local grocery stores in early June. (Kim Hairston/Staff)

UNFI’s operations back to normal after cyberattack contained

June 27, 2025 at 7:13 p.m.

Rhode Island-based United Natural Foods, Inc., the largest natural foods distributor, said its online invoicing and ordering system has been restored after a cyberattack earlier this month gutted the supply...

Junot Quinones, center, owner of Keko’s Barber Shop in Highlandtown, works on regular customer Anthony Heinez’s hair cut. Quinones says businesses are down following recent ICE raids in the area. (Kenneth K. Lam/Staff)

As Highlandtown customers disappear, some business owners blame ICE raids

June 30, 2025 at 11:17 a.m.

Guillermo owns a Mexican restaurant in Highlandtown with his brother, Daniel. Normally, it's busy at lunchtime, but on a Friday in mid-June, no customers were in sight.

DPW, as seen at the Reedbird Ave. location, will not suspend its garbage collection due to extreme heat. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff)

Baltimore DPW will not suspend garbage collection amid heat wave

June 23, 2025 at 5:10 p.m.

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works will not suspend waste collection amid the extreme heat this week, but instead told The Baltimore Sun it has established safety guidelines for workers.

Cyberattack on major supplier results in food shortage in Maryland grocery stores

June 21, 2025 at 5:12 p.m.

Shoppers may experience some empty shelves in grocery stores this weekend after a cyberattack on Monday disrupted a major food supplier's product distribution.

ICE faces a lawsuit regarding the alleged “inhumane” conditions inside the Baltimore facility with immigrant advocacy organizations suing and protesting the agency against the agency, seen here in the CASA march against the agency’s detention of Maryland immigrants last week. (Kim Hairston/Staff)

Baltimore ICE facility lawsuit: Advocates call conditions ‘inhumane’

June 18, 2025 at 5:16 p.m.

Two immigration advocacy organizations requested the judge to compel Baltiore's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding center to follow its own policies over "inhumane" conditions.

Multiple protests against increased ICE detentions have sprouted across Maryland, such as this march led by immigrant advocacy organization CASA, but data releases have been reigned in. (Kim Hairston/Staff)

ICE data sparse, despite releases boasting high arrests, detentions

June 16, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Despite the regular press releases promoting their arrests and detentions, ICE has made it challenging to access consistent data on their activities since the Trump Administration took office.

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