Re-invent the Homestead Act
Get people out of the cities and into rural areas.
Each person gets two acres in a pre-planned community. Applicants earn credits toward their land and home by completing gardening, construction, and other hands-on classes taught by retired professionals. They then use these skills to develop their own properties.
Communities are laid out with a town square of schools, community and cultural centers, with all services in the center. Home lots surround the town square. Outside of the home lots are fields, forests and nature preserves.
Community members grow the majority of their own food and work in local industries that vary according to location.
Communities are limited to approximately 1,000 homes.
Sturdy, functional homes are built by applicants and volunteers on land currently owned by the federal government. Materials for home and garden are funded by the government grants and private donations.
The American Dream of home ownership without a crippling 30-year mortgage, makes the USA a country of property owners again.
A hand up instead of a hand out.