H.O.M.E.S (Home-ownership, Opportunity, and Mentorship for Economic Success) is a coalition whose purpose is to increase home-ownership for Baltimore’s working-class families by creating opportunity, jobs for the community, and affordable housing stock that will foster strong mixed-income neighborhoods and increase the city’s tax base, thereby improving living conditions for all Baltimore City residents. We believe the the best way to achieve these goals is through The Dollar House/Dollar Lot Program for the 21st Century.
If you believe that every family deserves a fair chance at home-ownership, and that housing dollars should stay in the hands of the people, not in the pockets of wealthy developers who don’t care about our communities, then it’s time to take action.
We say no to corporate welfare for developers and yes to real opportunity for local residents. Our vision is simple: empower neighborhoods to rebuild themselves, create good jobs, and provide job training for our children — instead of exploiting vulnerable, undocumented workers.
The H.O.M.E.S. Version Dollar Program offers a proven, common-sense solution that truly works. It costs taxpayers nothing, every dollar is repaid with just one percent interest, and it strengthens our communities from the inside out.
📞 Call the Governor at (410) 974-3071 and the Mayor of Baltimore at (410) 396-7208 today.
Tell them to meet with the leaders of the H.O.M.E.S. organization and implement the H.O.M.E.S. Dollar House Program immediately.
Together, we can rebuild Baltimore — one home, one family, one neighborhood at a time.
The guiding philosophy behind H.O.M.E.S. is:
H: Home-ownership and revitalization for people who actually live in the community vs. gentrification and giveaways to a select few investors and absentee landlords.
O: Opportunity means jobs for the community, including ex-offenders returning to the community and participating in renovations.
M: Mentorship in the form of court ordered diversion to apprenticeship programs in the building trades, as opposed to mass incarceration at $38,000 per inmate.
E: Economic stability as the Dollar House Program would produce state and local income tax revenue at very livable wages. The Dollar House Program would also produce minority contracting opportunities.
S: Success is all of the above, which can be achieved with direct loans from the state at a 1% fixed rate, turning a $100,000 renovation investment loan into an affordable $300/per month mortgage for a typical Dollar House owner.
If you agree with the H.O.M.E.S. Program’s proven methodology — one that delivers truly affordable housing, real jobs and job training for our youth and returning citizens, and contracting opportunities for Black-owned businesses — then stand with us today.
The H.O.M.E.S. model keeps hundreds of millions of housing dollars circulating within the Black community, where they belong — for actual use in and by our community.
Please read the Seven Principles of the H.O.M.E.S. Program, then take action:
📞 Call the Mayor’s Office at (410) 974-3071
📞 Call the Governor’s Office at (410) 396-7208
The H.O.M.E.S. model keeps hundreds of millions of housing dollars circulating within the Black community, where they belong — for actual use in and by our community.
Please read the Seven Principles of the H.O.M.E.S. Program, then take action:
📞 Call the Mayor’s Office at (410) 974-3071
📞 Call the Governor’s Office at (410) 396-7208
Tell them to meet with the leaders of the H.O.M.E.S. organization immediately to implement this proven, self-sustaining solution.
Tell them to meet with the leaders of the H.O.M.E.S. organization immediately to implement this proven, self-sustaining solution.
Giving away our houses, land, and housing dollars to wealthy outside developers is not the answer to our housing problems. Investing in our own people is.
Please stand with us in our support of the wrongful prosecution of Ms. Marilyn J. Mosby, Esq. Sign the petition below (or click here) to show that you support a Counter Attorney Grievance being filed against State’s Attorney Ivan Bates by the Committee to Free Marilyn Mosby.
UMOJA! UNITY!!
- We have received word from staff at Morgan State University that there will not be a Kwanzaa celebration this year for the first time in 25 years, according to an e-mail sent out by leadership. (This traditional yearly Kwanzaa observance on the campus of Morgan State University will more than likely, never to be held there again.).
- Baba Charles Duggar, prominent elder, Morgan graduate school alum, and community leader, has along with other leaders of Morgan’s campus community and community at large, conducted Kwanzaa on Morgan’s campus for the past 25 years except for two years because of COVID. The team has been an anxious recipient of beautiful celebration that the Morgan students and the campus staff enjoyed, and for which deep and continued cultural sustenance.
- We believe that this is an attempt to have a cultural bleaching of our heritage and traditions from our institutions. We think this is happening because Morgan is an HBCU. We suspect that this attempt to shut down the Kwanzaa observance is being fostered by a power structure outside of the community and their surrogates within the university.
- We believe that African American students who are illiterate in African culture must be reconnected with the true African American community, not a lie told by a social structure a real danger. Morgan graduates lead and blend with all communities and in the larger Black community. Possibly creating an environment where those who are least able feel no inclination to provide support, leadership or guidance to our already underserved communities.
- The African American graduates that Morgan produces are our future leaders, so we intend to defend their right to practice Kwanzaa on campus as has been done for the past 25 years. We also feel that the Kwanzaa celebration provides invaluable outreach to the surrounding community which is not only home to Morgan but to some of its most avid supporters.
- If you do not have transportation to the Call for Action protest rally, there will be an 11 or 15-seat passenger van provided at the MARC station at Franklin and Pulaski Streets in Baltimore City for the first 10 people who arrive. The van will depart at 4:00 PM. Those who would like to provide transportation in their personal vehicles in the form of carpooling should report there no later than 3:45 PM.
*NOTE: If an agreement is made to not cancel the Kwanzaa celebration prior to the day of the protest rally, the protest rally will be canceled. Please listen to the Call Tyrone Show that airs at 12pm on Wednesdays on WOLB AM 1010. For more information, especially on the day of the protest (which falls on a Wednesday), feel free to call the show if you have any questions concerning this matter.
We want to make the following clear:
- We love and appreciate Morgan State University; we love our Morgan students.
- This is NOT A PROTEST AGAINST MORGAN OR ITS STUDENTS as we believe that Morgan is one of the finest universities for learning in the nation.
- Our primary focus is preventing those in positions of power and their surrogates and operatives from stripping Morgan of its African American roots, heritage, and culture.
- We are against the bleaching of Morgan’s culture and long-held traditions.
- We support the right of Morgan students to traditional culture, as well as an identity. These are valuable experiences that add to the HBCU intangible blend not expected to be found elsewhere.
- Kwanzaa is not a religious observance it is a cultural observance.
- Morgan is an HBCU and as such there are certain expectations that are unique to an HBCU that are expected from the leadership. We intend to hold leadership accountable to these ideals on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM. We will have signs and provide flyers expressing our concerns about the cultural bleaching of Morgan State University.
Please contact Ms. Annette Woodroffe, Community Outreach Coordinator at (443) 641-6646.
Please contact Morgan President Dr. David Wilson at 443-885-3200. Ask them to please continue the traditional observance of Kwanzaa at Morgan State University.