Our Programs

Building a Healthy Neighborhood

The Building a Healthy Neighborhood (BaHN) program brings together Rebuilding Together’s strategic community development approach, the Community Revitalization Partnership, and our core practice model, Safe and Healthy Housing. Through Safe and Healthy Housing, we seek to advance health equity by improving health and housing outcomes for our neighbors in need in economically distressed communities. Our experience working in these communities has taught us that systematic, coordinated approaches are needed to improve quality of life at the individual and community level. Accordingly, our Community Revitalization Partnership (CRP) model has called on our organization to adopt a deeper and longer-term (one year minimum) focus at the neighborhood level. By targeting our service delivery in specific neighborhoods and aligning our work more closely with other nonprofit providers and community leadership, Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte improves the health and safety conditions of entire neighborhoods, not just individual homes.

Current Neighborhood - Davidson West (2024-2025), East Catawba (2024-2025), Hidden Valley (2022-2024), Pottstown (2024-2025), Smithville (2024-2025)

Previous Neighborhoods - Lakeview (2021-2022), Druid Hills (2019-2021), Camp Greene/Enderly Park (2018)

Know a neighborhood that could use BaHN next? Contact us.

Critical Home Repair Program

The Critical Home Repair program addresses major repair issues for low-income homeowners in Mecklenburg, Gaston, Iredell, Cabarrus, and Union counties. Repairs are targeted at correcting safety and health hazards such as leaking roofs, lack of heat, plumbing and electrical issues, and critical accessibility needs. Depending on the project funding sources available, household income must be under 50% or 80% of the area median income and own and occupy the home needing repairs. The Critical Home Repair program also ensures that families are safe at home. It provides no-cost preventive home modifications to individuals with physical disabilities, mobility issues, and/or respiratory issues worsened by the home’s condition.

She Builds

Women-led and women focused, She Builds provides critical repairs for women-headed households and women-focused community spaces to empower women to maintain safe and healthy homes, make a difference in their communities and build a supportive community network. This program is a collaboration between RTGC, corporate and community leaders who are dedicated to advancing the housing and community issues affecting women.

Participants come to the builds with a myriad of experiences and skills to share and learn from each another. Programming includes participation in a home or community center renovation led by women, home repair trainings on how to maintain safe and healthy homes and leadership training and mentoring to encourage community participation and empowerment. Participants learn basic carpentry and plumbing skills, electrical safety do’s and don’ts and other on-the-job training while working on these repair projects to improve the health and safety of their own living conditions. Learning how to complete home repairs independently not only saves money but builds confidence in self-sufficiency. She Builds brings women together to support one another and encourages them to be change-makers in their own communities.

Workforce Development

Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte partners with the area’s leading workforce development organizations to leverage our home repair projects and skilled construction staff to provide hands-on field experience for emerging trades professionals. Acting as an extension of the classroom experience to provide real-world, our projects offer hands-on opportunities in the trades. These partnerships add extra capacity to our staff to complete more critical repair and accessibility projects for low-income homeowners. All participants receive training and on-site supervision from construction staff who hold the following certifications: general contractors, certified aging in place specialists (CAPS), executive certificate in home modifications, lead paint (RRP), CPR, OSHA, and Rebuilding Together’s safe and healthy housing training.

Current workforce development partners include:

AmeriCorps

The federal agency for national service and volunteerism, AmeriCorps provides opportunities for Americans of all backgrounds to serve their country, address the nation’s most pressing challenges, and improve lives and communities.

Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont

Goodwill offers a wide variety of industry-specific job training programs, including in the construction trades, through its training division, Goodwill University.

She Built This City

Aiming to builds pathways to lucrative careers in the skilled trades for youth, women, and marginalized communities, She Built This City is a local nonprofit serving the Greater Charlotte area.

The ROC Charlotte

A local nonprofit, The ROC (Rebuilding Opportunities in Construction) aims to recruit, educate and mentor high school students in Charlotte, NC for Career and Technical Education (CTE) and employment opportunities in the construction industry.