About 40 women have graduated from Baltimore’s DevelopHER program. “We’ve tapped into a niche of women who are hungry to get into real estate,” said program director Tameka Harris. Photo courtesy of Walter J. Washington.
About 40 women have graduated from Baltimore’s DevelopHER program. “We’ve tapped into a niche of women who are hungry to get into real estate,” said program director Tameka Harris. Photo courtesy of Walter J. Washington.

In some of Baltimore’s most neglected neighborhoods, you’ll hear a lot of drilling, hammering and generators buzzing as contractors work to renovate abandoned homes — often without electricity.

It’s part of a broader effort to address the city’s more than 12,000 vacant properties.

Several community groups in Baltimore will receive $30 million in state funds to reduce blight. One of them, O’Hara Development Partners CDC, plans to revitalize properties in the Midway neighborhood.

But the company’s founder isn’t just focused on bricks and mortar — she wants to grow the pipeline of women entering the male-dominated field of real estate development.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.

2 replies on “A school trains women in Baltimore to rebuild the blocks — and the system”

  1. Great news on the Women Dev. Project!! I am one of the few African American Women that also have an BUILDING COMPANY HERE IN MARYLAND ! PLEASE EMAIL ME MORE INFO. AT: Shirleycheeks3@gmail.com Peace and Blessings! From : Shirley Cheeks Diallo

  2. This is an amazing project for women. The community will benefit greatly from the partnership between DevelopHer Project in revitalizing their communities one brick and block at-a-time.

    Thanks

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