This is a great idea but it would take a substantial amount of money for tools, materials, and inspections for a lot of those areas to get fixed up. At this point, who knows if many of those buildings are even in a fixable condition at this point. Also we would need to pay them for their labor because they also need to eat and I doubt we’d get the state or the feds to that so it would have to come from the city that already can barely pay for the services that it has. Also, just handing people property is possible through the land bank but a lot of the properties are still privately owned, meaning you’d need to buy out the owners.

On paper, it’s a really good idea but logistically it’s quite complicated