The mission of the Mending Walls Foundation is to provide housing for the homeless, veterans, and other at-risk citizens by rehabilitating and building homes in low-income areas — starting in Baltimore.
Mending Walls Foundation, Inc.Turning blight into belonging — one house at a time.
“The mission of the Mending Walls Foundation is to provide housing for the homeless, veterans, and other at-risk citizens by rehabilitating and building homes in low-income areas.”
Mending Walls Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in Maryland. The foundation was created to address a problem visible on street after street in Baltimore: sound, well-built homes standing vacant and boarded up — while families and veterans nearby search for a safe, affordable place to live.
Our answer is straightforward. We acquire vacant and blighted properties, renovate them to a quality standard, and lease them as affordable rental homes for the people our mission names — homeless individuals, veterans, and other at-risk citizens — including families using Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and veterans through the HUD-VASH program.
Every renovated house does two jobs at once: it puts a roof over a household that needs one, and it brings a neglected property — and the block around it — back to life.
Both programs serve the people at the center of our mission — homeless individuals, veterans, and other at-risk citizens. Each starts the same way, with a vacant property rehabilitated into a real home, and ends the same way: with someone home.
We renovate vacant properties into safe, quality rental homes for families using Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers — stable housing for households, and dependable tenancy for neighborhoods.
We provide renovated homes for veterans through HUD-VASH, the program that pairs HUD housing vouchers with VA support services — so veterans get both a home and the support that helps them keep it.
Mending Walls is registered in Maryland, and Baltimore is where the work starts — a city with blocks of vacant rowhouses and a real need for quality affordable homes. Expansion to Georgia and Florida is planned as the foundation grows.
We identify and acquire vacant or blighted properties in Baltimore neighborhoods — houses with good bones and no future as they stand.
Each property is renovated into a safe, quality home — the kind of place any of us would be glad to live in, not the minimum a voucher allows.
The finished home is leased to a Section 8 family or a veteran through HUD-VASH — turning a boarded house back into an address, and a block back into a neighborhood.
These are the kinds of properties Mending Walls exists for — Baltimore rowhouses and buildings standing vacant today. Tap any photo to see it larger.
Vacant Baltimore rowhouses — the kind of properties Mending Walls renovates into homes for Section 8 families and veterans. Photos from the foundation's own collection.
Donations to Mending Walls Foundation go directly toward the work: acquiring vacant properties and renovating them into quality affordable homes for Section 8 families and veterans in Baltimore.
Mending Walls Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in Maryland. Every gift — large or small — helps mend another wall.
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Housing authorities, veteran organizations, contractors, lenders, and grantmakers — if your work touches affordable housing in Baltimore, we'd like to talk.
Know a vacant or blighted property in Baltimore that could become a home again? Tell us about it — it may be exactly what we're looking for.
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