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The Redevelopment of City and Rural Areas Authority (RCRA) – Staying True to Our Heritage
by Yasha Husain
February 4, 2013 (readapted on February 4, 2014)
There comes a time to artfully press for change, and then, together, make it happen. It's hard to come up with a good reason why that time is not now. In fact, it's seemingly impossible to argue the time isn't now for Americans, along with President Barack Obama, in his second term, to address poverty issues, and global warming, at the same time, via a new institution I would name: the Redevelopment of City and Rural Areas Authority – Staying True to Our Heritage (RCRA).
Similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in terms of its discipline, but new in its approach, could be the RCRA, “uplifting neighborhoods from coast to coast, providing equal opportunity rights for the family, and in education, and at work, and, pursuant to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in a triad in a nation that represents all of its people all of the time. Literally, by the end of 2014, uplifting its poor and disadvantaged out of poverty.”
The Redevelopment Authority (RCRA) would be responsible for uplifting neighborhoods by way of financial relief and for physical reconstruction and job creation. In so doing, it would simultaneously work to resolve global warming by ensuring neighborhoods are not only liveable, but sustainable.Native American communities, would, hopefully, if they so choose, be amongst those participating.
The RCRA would renovate and rehabilitate poor neighborhoods so that the quality of life there becomes adapted to the way of the Tao (the middle way), borrowing from age-old, Chinese wisdom. The physical constitutions of these neighborhoods, the architectures that build them, may provide serenity to those otherwise living under less than tranquil conditions. Neighborhoods not well-suited to redevelopment could be rebuilt in a new space that's environmentally sustainable, contains open space and is Tao-like.
In addition to the physical transformation of neighborhoods in need of redevelopment and upliftment, there would be progressive job creation for the people in these neighborhoods, and simultaneously, the same transformations, for individuals of households experiencing remarkable inequity across the country. Education, certification and opportunity might best be local and provide for livelihoods born out of immersion with agriculture; integrative and preventive medicine; holistic education; architecture, building and design, and the arts, in just a handful of examples. So, people, as a part of the change taking place, could go to local trade associations or independent apprenticeships; specially organized, certification houses, and university, to receive the education and training they need, even while beginning to experience the transformation of their homes and environments. They can also complete training as a part of the change taking place, by working toward, for example, agriculture and building or construction know-how in these fields, in lower-level jobs, working to higher-level positions and management levels, and that way also afford any additional, what would have to be affordable training or schooling that allows individuals and families to achieve, gradually, more sophisticated or sought-after positions in the marketplace.
The renaissance neighborhoods would themselves be immersed with newly designed, or renovated, schools, libraries, playgrounds and parks, that inspire the citizens, who also, from start to finish, actively participate in the decisions about and for these neighborhoods.
The space of the community could include many shared spaces, between which one can enjoyably walk or bike. There would somewhere, hopefully, be ready access to nature, as it stands in its pristine state, as well.This is the face of a future, filled with promise, under which the United States, and perhaps countries around the world which adopt, and adapt to their needs, the proposal too, confronts the issues that must be overcome in the present, particularly poverty, simultaneously enlightening its citizens in light of local and sustainable farming tools and the holistic sciences and arts.
The RCRA might be a most uplifting approach for creating solutions to ongoing poverty issues, including job creation, and for tackling global warming, and can be utilized around the world, as well, similar to how the American Reconstruction Department, also proposed by the Holistic Solutions Think Tank, might be re-adapted to the needs of nation-states around the world.
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REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Redevelopment of City and Rural Areas Authority – Staying True to Our Heritage (RCRA), suggested reports for the Holistic Solutions Think Tank to issue and undertake:
1. A compilation of sociological evidence (including sociopolitical and socioeconomic) that the RCRA is a necessary and integral part of the United State's progress and will be a buttress to our social and economic needs. Include, as well, original reports issued and undertaken by the think tank.
2. Map and analysis of communities, and individuals, to be affected by redevelopment plans of the RCRA.
3. Map outlining future redevelopment effort of the RCRA.
4. Cost analysis of RCRA staffing.
5. Cost analysis of rebuilding and building communities, and individual homes, offset by savings. (Savings will involve helping people become independent of foodstamps, Medicaid assistance and cost-of-living assistance. It will involve the creation of jobs, and job sectors, spurring the local, state and national economy. Savings will also be affected by an overall improvement in quality-of-life, which impacts health care and economic outlook, and also innovation and invention, positively.)
6. Cost analysis of creation and procedure of training initiatives at different schools and institutes.
7. An economics report, or projection, of community-building with job development, and interlinked with local, state and national economy.
8. A sociological report containing feedback from future RCRA community members.
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