The main issue here is jobs. There are many vacant houses in the US, but most of them are not where there are a great deal of jobs. There needs to be a jobs program and a public housing program.
This is part of why I think we should have a reserve labor force trained and certified in a variety of trades. Dispatch them all around the country to do maintenance and infrastructure projects and pay them even when they're not actively on a job.
It would require decades of rehabilitation. Undoing the damage caused by the private sector is several lifetimes of work in itself, and then building functional, sustainable, and reliable replacements several lifetimes more.
The main issue here is jobs. There are many vacant houses in the US, but most of them are not where there are a great deal of jobs. There needs to be a jobs program and a public housing program.
This is part of why I think we should have a reserve labor force trained and certified in a variety of trades. Dispatch them all around the country to do maintenance and infrastructure projects and pay them even when they're not actively on a job.
We could literally employ every jobless person for the rest of their lives and not even scratch the surface of fixing the USA's awful infrastructure.
It would require decades of rehabilitation. Undoing the damage caused by the private sector is several lifetimes of work in itself, and then building functional, sustainable, and reliable replacements several lifetimes more.