“The problem is beyond trying to rehabilitate one house at a time,” Trainor says. “People have tried that method for decades and it hasn’t worked.”

Since founding the PCC, Trainor has worked to raise funds and bring his vision to fruition, but admits it has been a struggle. After reassessing the business model, he says he realized he needed a for-profit partnership to get things moving.

He found that partenership over the summer through a man named Chris Stock and his Mt. Airy based salvage and restoration shop, the Philadelphia Salvage Company.

(via PlanPhilly | Nonprofit and Mt. Airy salvage company unite to sustainably reduce Germantown blight)