Empty lots filled with broken appliances and furniture, litter-strewn streets with stray animals roaming freely down them, and beaten-down, boarded up houses commanded my attention as I passed by. I wondered to myself, doesn’t anyone care? Would it matter if someone did?

I thought, what if there was a way to combat this? What if there were a way to take this street, this block, this entire neighborhood, buy every house, tear them down or rehab them, and create clean, safe, affordable housing for working families? What if we could take this self-destructing neighborhood and turn it into a self-CONstructing one?

All these questions went through my mind, as perhaps they would pass through yours if you drove down these same streets, or streets just like them in your city. When I arrived home, I started to search for an answer.

Believe it or not, I found one!

As you can read elsewhere on this site, there is a man named Ephren Taylor, CEO of City Capital Corporation, with a vision for neighborhoods just like the one I’ve been describing. He works closely with cities across America to purchase whole streets of blighted homes, convert them into safe housing, and resell them to working-class homeowner families.

And he does it all in partnership with everyday investors just like you and me.

Sound like a pipe-dream? I assure you, it’s not. It’s happening today, right now, and it’s creating both housing opportunity where there was none, and investment profits where there were none. Does double-digit ROI (return on investment) interest you? How about investing using either cash, your own retirement funds in a self-directed IRA, or just your good credit? Does playing a role in turning around urban neighborhoods interest you?

If so, and if you have questions you would like answered, you need to check out Socially Conscious Real Estate Investing. Don’t delay… there’s work to be done!