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Publicly funded home improvements in return for a share of the house, or the house's increase in value |
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Score
50%
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2 votes,
Feasibility
50%
Originality
50%
Humour
50% |
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The Problem:
Unemployment and lack of economic stimulus
The Social Invention:
Since the gov't. is throwing money at make-work projects and infrastructure improvements anyway, it seems to me that there's a project that could get under way much faster, with less likelihood of fraud or ineffectiveness than the ones I've been reading about. Namely, the gov't should offer to pay for home-improvement projects for home-owners in exchange for either a share in the ownership of the house, or a share of future profits (beyond its current value) on the sale of the house. This would stimulate lots of economic activity, would upgrade the country's housing stock, would make life pleasanter for home-owners and their neighbors (who'd live in an upgraded neighborhood), and would be a good investment for the gov't. in the long run. It would also be politically popular (assuming it would work).
There are certain desirable-but-fairly-rare home improvements that wouldn’t require skilled labor, such as added fencing, improved home security, improved home insulation, and improved earthquake protection.
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Born 1943. Background in computers & proofreading. Interested in Bigfoot, politics, social inventions, anti-scofticism
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