This unique enterprise combines the best of linked learning – career awareness, academics, exploration, and experiential opportunities – with housing renovation and neighborhood revitalization to create an education-based approach to combating poverty and urban blight. Students earn real financial capital through bi-weekly educational stipends as they progress through the program and after learning and engaging in home-building, they are set up to earn middle class wages and become homeowners. Founders Mark Martin & James Sutton actively utilize sustainable public dollars to ensure a student’s education is completely paid as well as the state tax credit scholarship program and a Jim Crow era law that was set up to rectify educational inequity.