Repairs for Legacy Homeowners
Dozens of Johnston Square residents are benefiting from the Johnston Square Legacy Homeowner Repair Program, which is enhancing their homes and their long-term quality of life.
Fostering New Partnerships
In 2023, we partnered with the Maryland Department of Housing, Community Development (Maryland DHCD), and Rebuild Johnston Square Neighborhood Organization to pilot the Johnston Square Legacy Homeowner Repair Program. Since launching, this program has assisted more than 30 Johnston Square Homeowners make major long-deferred repairs and improvements to their homes, many of whom live on the same blocks where we are rebuilding abandoned homes. We are fostering new partnerships to expand this program to another group of local homeowners, with ongoing support from Maryland DHCD, The Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs, and Enterprise Community Partners’ Thome Aging Well Program.
Helping Homeowners Thrive in Place
Johnston Square is a neighborhood of century-old rowhomes, and many of their owners are in need of a reliable and no-cost repair program to help them keep up with the wear and tear that all aging homes experience over time. The Johnston Square Legacy Homeowner Repair Program ensures that, if a homeowner wants to stay in Johnston Square as their community undergoes revitalization, they have every opportunity to do so—and can do so in a home that offers them as good a quality of life and as much opportunity to build equity as any new home in the neighborhood.
The Legacy Homeowner Repair Program serves as a proactive anti-displacement strategy, reaffirming our dedication to ensuring that our reinvestments in Johnston Square actively elevate and support the residents who have sustained this community through both prosperous and challenging times. It also helps ensure that the whole blocks we are restoring can remain whole, and that they continue to be spaces where new and legacy residents can thrive together.
Expanding Our Program
ReBUILD Metro is proud to announce the expansion of our Johnston Square Legacy Homeowner Repair Program after a successful first phase. Since launching last year, the program has provided crucial home repairs and façade improvements to dozens of Johnston Square homeowners, improving their safety, living conditions, and home equity. Now, as we continue to revitalize Johnston Square, we are prepared to help even more legacy residents benefit from these efforts.
Using a competitive process, ReBUILD Metro has selected Rebuilding Together Baltimore (RTB) to lead home repairs for our program expansion. RTB brings extensive experience and commitment to providing no-cost home repairs to low- and moderate-income Baltimore homeowners, revitalizing communities and rebuilding lives. We are excited to welcome RTB’s expertise to Johnston Square as we continue our collaboration with Rebuild Johnston Square Neighborhood Organization (RJSNO) to ensure that more Johnston Square homeowners have access to this opportunity.
A Local Pilot
The Legacy Homeowner Repair Program is exclusive to Johnston Square homeowners, and there is currently a waiting list for this program as we seek resources to broaden its availability. We hope the program will serve as a model for how legacy homeowners can be supported and sustained in other Baltimore neighborhoods undergoing the revitalization process.
Good Homes Change Lives
