We don't see blight.

We see opportunity.

StreetWell transforms neighborhood rebuilding into neighborhood ownership

BALTIMORE DIDN’T JUST EXPERIENCE HOUSING SEGREGATION.IT INVENTED IT.

— THE PROBLEM —

In 1910, the city passed Ordinance 610 — the first residential segregation law in American history. The federal government followed. The machinery changed its face across decades — redlining, contract sales, blockbusting, subprime targeting — but kept its function: extraction.

Today:

17,000

vacant properties in Baltimore.

$3,000

median Black household wealth.

The problem is not poverty. It is extraction. The wealth existed. It was built. Then it was taken. Those same neighborhoods hold enormous opportunity.

The question is who captures it.

A DIFFERENT WAY TO REBUILD.

— THE MODEL —

StreetWell builds cooperative real estate systems that allow workers, residents, and communities to own the neighborhoods they rebuild.

Instead of treating housing as a speculative asset, the StreetWell model organizes redevelopment through a network of worker-owned construction companies, community investment vehicles, and shared services infrastructure. When buildings are restored, the people doing the work and the people living there can participate in the ownership.

The result is not just renovation. It is wealth-building rooted in place.

“THE PEOPLE WHO DO THE WORK SHOULD OWN THE RESULTS OF IT.”

THE STREETWELL MODEL.

— HOW IT WORKS —

01

Local construction cooperatives perform the rehabilitation work. The builders are worker-owners — they share in the value created by their labor.

Worker-Owned Construction

02

Housing assets are organized into portfolios designed for long-term community stewardship, not short-term speculation. Equity stays in the neighborhood.

Community Real Estate (IREP)

Shared Infrastructure

03

StreetWell provides the technical infrastructure — finance, tech, media, cooperative development, and fund access — that lets local co-ops do their work without building every function from scratch.

— “We used to just do the work. Now we own what we build.”

BUILD FROM REAL WORK.

— THE ECOSYSTEM —

StreetWell did not begin as a theory. It grew out of construction work happening in Baltimore and across the Mid-Atlantic through worker-owned companies and community partnerships.

Today the StreetWell network includes organizations working across construction, housing stewardship, workforce development, and cooperative development.