And here's an example ...

Because great minds apparently think alike, my buddy Spencer - who is the executive director at the Athens Area Habitat for Humanity - brought to my attention his organization's 'Brush With Kindness' program ... which would be equipped to handle what I talked about earlier this morning.

This program works to provide repairs and renovations to low-income communities at lower costs than private contractors in much the same way the Habitat model operates less expensively when building homes (i.e. volunteer labor and paid staff construction specialists).

Again, there are a variety of ways this could be done, ranging from private contractors to numerous non-profits (Athens Land Trust comes to mind as well). My point being that the existing infrastructure is in place to execute these tasks, and, in my opinion, they'd be effective uses of additional Community Development Block Grant money.