I know what I’m asking for is a lot. I fully intend to quit my day job and focus fully on property development and management with my business if this campaign reaches four-to-five hundred thousand. That would be more than enough for me to meet my bills for the next several years along with working on this goal. If I had $20,000,000 I could make a huge dent in the blight and economic suffering plaguing this city. If I had $100,000,000, I could set this city up for a future return to its glory days from the 1950’s-1980’s without counting all of its eggs in one GM manufacturing basket, along with creating a roadmap to success for the other cities in this nation that are struggling. But, let’s start with an attainable goal.

The Plan:

• Install rain and snow water collection and filtration systems for families in the hardest hit areas. These are the blocks where there are only a few occupied homes and the water gets sludgy due to lack of flow.

• Continue installing these systems for families in the other parts of the city.

  • This will make these families not even have to wait for the city to get its act together to have clean drinking and bathing water.

• Offer repair and beautification to people who own homes in the city.

• Pressure the slumlords who call themselves landlords to repair and beautify the homes and properties they rent, start buying them out if they don’t.

• Work with landlords of integrity to repair and beautify their properties, as good property maintenance raises the value of homes for everyone who owns in the city.

• Buy and tear down the homes that are beyond repair, and turn them into grassy lots for either absorption into neighboring addresses or to have houses built on them once economic recovery is happening.

• Buy and repair the homes that are not beyond repair, and offer them as rent-to-own and ready-to-sell inventory for local families.

  • This will bring people to live in the city who have a vested interest in keeping it beautiful.

  • This will also give struggling families who live in slums for owners who won’t work with us a different living option, which will in turn put increased pressure on slumlords to do better with their properties.

• Buy, renovate, rent, and sell commercial properties to businesses that will bring jobs and training to the area.

• Start businesses that offer necessary and entertainment services to the city.

• Head into schools and offer skilled trades training and business startup capital for young people not heading to college so they have professional options other than low-skilled work.

• Start free private schools which have higher academic and behavioral standards than local charter and public schools and hold kids accountable for their scholastic achievement.

Click on the link below to donate/share the campaign. Please email me if you’d like to talk about this goal, partnership opportunities, or any other part of this dream.

https://gofund.me/7f1bab10

God bless,

Nate Roberts
nate-roberts@comcast.net

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https://www.michiganradio.org/post/flint-demolish-more-houses-fight-blight