businesses to open and serve residents their pride in ownership. >> we want them to buy their own houses. they have too much time on their hands and not enough opportunity. we think we can do some good in baltimore for this. and it might be a model for other cities as well. >> reporter: in the past five decades, many of the neighborhoods hit by the riots have not recovered. the inner city is infected with drugs. the main source of income for too many young men. dan and don think their plan can help break that cycle. >> they have a career after that, and they can own the same house that they're building. it's understood, a henry ford concept where he hired people on the assembly line to build cars they would buy. >> reporter: is it a problem that they still make some money for the city. >> right now a lot of these properties aren't worth what the