Black Women Build - Project & Organization Tour

BmoreNOMA and AIA Baltimore presents a  in-person tour with Black Women Build-Baltimore.

Black Women Build-Baltimore was founded in 2017 by Shelley Halstead who believes that for Black women to build intergenerational wealth, with the inherent security and prosperity it can generate, they must also learn the skills necessary to maintain that wealth. Home ownership and the ability to maintain that asset is one way this can be achieved.

Each year a choart of women acquire their homes though involvement in the home construction process. They are taught trades-related skills of carpentry, electrical work and plumbing, as well as financial and home ownership literacy skills. Black Women Build partners with architects, engineers, the City and State Departments of Housing and Community Development, and Neighborhood Housing Services.

With a passionate belief in the power of knowledge, skills and opportunity to shape a woman’s life, Shelley founded Black Women Build – Baltimore on an intersectional framework.