BALTIMORE — Justin Pittman can point out every project he worked on at the Carver House.

"We had to dig this all up, we had to get the dirt out," he says, pointing to the small front lawn of the vacant home along Presstman Street in West Baltimore.

"We had to paint the whole house, from the basement walls to the ceiling. We had to paint the whole house but those were the best times I think," he said.

Pittman graduated from Carver Vocational Technical High School, which sits right across the street from the Carver House. Its one of several vacant homes that face the school.

"It was a lot of hard labor but I got experience that people in the field [who] have done it for 10 years. I’m grateful for that."

He was among the first group of students at Carver to start renovations on the Carve

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