Rebuild Metro

ReBUILD Metro is a community change organization that revitalizes historically redlined neighborhoods of East Baltimore without displacing their legacy residents. Since launching in 2006, we have grown from a community-driven concept for solving the Oliver neighborhood’s abandonment crisis into Baltimore’s largest nonprofit developer and manager of scattered-site housing for low-to-moderate-income families. Since 2008, we have rebuilt over 200 abandoned properties into new homeownership and rental housing opportunities and have created a total of over 420 mixed-income housing units in East Baltimore, along with several new storefronts and community greenspaces. As a result of our reinvestments, two formerly distressed East Baltimore neighborhoods have together experienced an 85% reduction in vacancy, a 30% rise in population, a 60% increase in homeownership, and a 50% reduction in homicides without experiencing any displacement.