Scale-Built Housing · Seed-to-Key
One production line, from forest to keys.
These are not separate businesses. They are one method — Scale-Built Housing: homes produced at scale, off a line, sequenced with demand, capital, and ownership — run by one machine, NeighborBuilt. Each company is one working part of the housing economy, coordinated so nothing breaks between the forest and a family's front door. The line is called Seed-to-Key: the mill supplies the factory, the factory supplies the homes, the homes serve the demand, the capital carries all of it, and the proof publishes as it happens.
NeighborBuilt
The machine · runs Scale-Built Housing
Supply
Eastside Lumber
The mill
Production
Bilt-Blocks
The factory
Delivery
Together.Homes
The homes
Backyarders
KC program
Lot Builders
KC program
Demand
UrbanCore
Dr. Ebony Edwards
Capital
OneMillion.Homes
The platform
Proof
News
Published live
01The Mill
Eastside Lumber
Owner · acquired 2021
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A 110-year-old lumberyard restored to East Side ownership. The supply chain, back in the neighborhood's hands.
02The Factory
Bilt-Blocks
Founder · coming online
Component manufacturing — the housing product, built as a product, not a project.
03The Homes
Together.Homes
Co-founder & CEO · launched 2025
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The homeownership pipeline for families coming home. Steve McDowell of BNIM serves as Vice President.
04The Backyards
Backyarders
KC.Together.Homes · live program
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Existing homeowners add a second home on land they already own. Density without displacement — the income lands on a deed that is already theirs, and every backyard build posts a new comp to its block.
05The Lots
Lot Builders
KC.Together.Homes · live program
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The vacant-lot inventory goes into production — the parcels the collapse left behind, filled back in block by block, fed by the mill and the factory, building toward critical mass.
06The Demand
UrbanCore
Co-founder · demand lane led by Dr. Ebony Edwards
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The demand limb — a club of urban cores across the country, sharing one method. Built spaces designed around the demand.
07The Capital
OneMillion.Homes
Founder & CEO · launched 2025
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The capital platform — a parallel asset class for tracts where price sits below replacement cost.
08The Proof
News
Publisher
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The public record of progress, published as it happens.
Also in the family: In Good Company — the gathering place at 1518 McGee, co-owned with Cedric Ransburg, launched 2024.
All properties
In the works — the writing
01
The Wealth of Nations Census Tracts
Book + white paper · writing now
The flagship — Adam Smith's question, asked at census-tract scale: why some tracts prosper and others are priced out. Co-authored with Dr. Ebony Edwards; NeighborBuilt's coming-out on cooperative production.
02
God Dam Rebuilding
Book · writing now
The conviction underneath the work, in its own voice — why the rebuilder rebuilds.
03
Covenant Lines
Novel + graphic novel · writing now
The story of coming home, told as fiction — the covenant carried in narrative form.
The series publishes into news.onemillion.homes ↗ as it lands; the Kansas City Music Office, also in the works, lives on the Placemaking page.
The record behind the machine is documented, both columns, at /our-record.