In the Beginning
In 1983, eleven low-income women joined forces with local housing activists to form the People's Homesteading Group and to pursue a shared vision of decent, affordable housing in Baltimore.

Starting as a grassroots self-help housing effort, PHG worked to rehab homes throughout Baltimore City. With a skeleton staff and countless volunteers, we evolved into a community development corporation.

Patty Rouse (l.) and Mary Harvin, former homesteader, now PGH Development Coordinator

Greenmount Focus Area
Since 1997, PHG has concentrated its rehabilitation efforts along the Greenmount Avenue corridor between East North Avenue and 25th Street.

Having mastered the real estate development process, PHG now acts as a catalyst to stimulate new public and private investment in the Greenmount Community. We engage residents and institutions in a neighborhood transformation process that strengthens our housing efforts in the Greenmount community.

PHG’s neighborhood transformation strategy strengthens the deteriorating blocks adjacent to existing community anchors: the Baltimore City School Administration Headquarters, St. Ann’s complex, and Dallas Nicholas and Cecil-Kirk elementary schools.