30+ Years Rebuilding Louisville, KY
Waymen Eddings is Executive Director and Founder of Rebatissons Community Development, a Louisville nonprofit advancing affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization. He is also Managing Partner of Dipole Data, LLC, where he leads technology and communications strategies that strengthen civic initiatives. Over his career in public service, business, and grassroots advocacy, Waymen has launched youth mentorship programs, expanded food access, and driven innovative urban development projects. Recognized as a Kentucky Colonel and awarded the Louisville “Key to the City” for community service, he continues to champion sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and expand opportunity.
I’m a Louisville native who has spent three decades fighting for families trapped by disinvestment, vacant buildings, and broken systems. My family has 100 years of roots in this community enduring many of these snares, with dignity and determination, as working class men and women chasing our American Dream.
In 2020 I founded Rebatissons Community Development LLC – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that aspires to turn abandoned properties into affordable homes, live-work spaces for entrepreneurs, and community-owned grocery stores.
We don’t just rebuild buildings. We rebuild hope, wealth, and opportunity — block by block.
→ Read the full mission at LetUsRebuild.org
A lifelong Louisvillian, Waymen draws on firsthand experience with both disinvestment and community resilience. His leadership seeks to bridge divides, expand opportunity, and restore dignity through housing, work, and care. Rooted in the neighborhoods that shaped him, he remains personally committed to building pride and prosperity across his city.
He is a Christian, devoted husband, and proud father of adult children (all graduates from local schools) and a preschool son, grounding his work in family and community values.
Government policies impact affordable housing access and economic revitalization in our neighborhoods. This has driven my conservative involvement to promote dignity, opportunity, and fiscal responsibility.