Changes at "Neighbors Helping Neighbors Basic Home Repair, Tool Sharing and Woodshop Apprenticeship Programming"

What problem would you like to solve?

Our community is one of the last remaining bastions of Black homeownership. However, it is an aging population of homeowners who need services like landscaping, carpentry, masonry, tiling, plumbing and other repair work.

Why is it important to solve? Why is it relevant for the community?

It is important to find ways to provide these services for general community upkeep of the housing stock and to provide an opportunity for community residents to learn needed skills to sake and keep their homes in an affordable way.

What idea do you have to address the problem?

I would like to see a home repair training program that prioritizing helping seniors get needed repairs by trusted community residents with skills that has a tool sharing program and an apprenticeship component. High school students and up could exposure to skills as well as tenants and homeowners in the community to learn some basic repair skills and have an opportunity to help seniors who need assistance. We can have a collectively owned tool sharing library and teach woodshop as well.

Who would that help?

It would help community homeowners especially seniors, youth and other community residents seeking an opportunity to learn how to repair their home themselves and to pick up skills to help others.

What neighborhood would benefit from your idea?

East Flatbush