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Housing the American Dream developments will also include start-up business offices and maker shops where residents can learn new skills desperately needed in America today. Among other training they are free to choose will also be master machining, 3D-Printing for auto parts, appliances, and the repair of appliances besides building 3D-printed houses in one day. About half of the appliances and auto parts purchased today fail because they were made in China. Replacement costs can double the cost of a refrigerator, as many have learned. All sorts of businesses can be started with independent and interdependent business people.

To ensure no local jobs are lost to the formerly homeless, we have arranged to open such as a Hydroleum plant for high grade bio-diesel, and produce other sustainable, 0rganic products. Entrepreneurial interactive 2-way TV shows will also be on satellite TV, streaming, and cable to join Housing the American Dream.

Providing Continuing Education

Since half of the homeless today are families, we spent time on providing a continuing education program and adopted the principle of not imposing on local resources or necessitating transport to local schools. Therefore, we are calling the Program Orion Sky. Orion Sky, is an educational program which has been designed to accommodate children, ages kindergarten to 12th Grade, providing options to be chosen by the parents and their children. These includes Distance Learning, Home Schooling, private schools, regional occupation programs, (ROP) grades 9 14, and charter schools, carried out under the guidance of a local credentialed teacher, and with 840 schools and colleges K 16 who have distant learning and mentoring programs.

Local teachers, who we will train with specialization Career Technology Education, (CTE), in 14 categories of learning to CTE. Credentialed teachers holding a state Industrial Arts and TEC Credential are qualified to teach in 8 of the 14 career areas. Otherwise, teachers obtain certificates of competence in one or more of the 14 career categories. Our initial Orion Sky Program will have a broad variety of specific subjects, including Computer Assisted Design (CAD), Real-Client Project Based Learning (RC-PBL), which deals with corporate, small business, charities, civic organizations and problems, or Real-Client Community Based Learning (RC-CPL), which has a more local orientation.

Orion Sky draws on the experience of experts who have used these programs successfully for Elementary school students for each of the specific specializations above.

Orion Sky was intentionally designed to help children and their parents move on from the limitations they have confronted. We expect this to be a learning experience for all of us. We are now discussing support for Orion Sky with major universities specializing in education.

The first local %PAYE financiers & finansurers will be the key to the first sustainable community built with a sustainable human economy in mind. When it was first done as land development companies 100 times 4 centuries ago with names like The Company of 100 Associates, Bay Company, Dorcester Company, the %PAYE redemptioners-of-debt called it America. The capitalists, called Adventurers believed in the advent of a new age of tolerance, and ventured their capital on expensive passage, a grubstake, and tools to build the New World for immigrants, and without tax money.

In this way, America can open its doors to refugees to our Southern Border, making them part of the rethinking of America for economic refugees, individuals and families.

The building of new types of homes, maker shops and the rest of the %PAYE financed development will be shown and sponsored on the TV show, Housing the American Dream. Americans will be able to participate, learn the stories of potential residents, matchmake investment with residents to rebuild their lives on rePAYEment terms. The Last will lead us.

Will they live there forever? Probably not. They will be able to move with a transferable %PAYe plan if they want. Their choice.

At this moment over ten companies are starting to provide 3DPrinting of homes. We have been monitoring their progress and will offer a competition for providing small homes which are entirely sustainable, comfortable, and include vertical growing for food. Our vertical growing expert, Rick Seyssel, has already designed the unit which will be one of two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen.

The projected cost for this in a community with lots of benefits, including health care, will be $25,000 paid for with %PAYe. It will cost nothing to move in if they have nothing. Everyone we talk to is skeptical. They say, "What is to keep them from just vegging away and never developing an income?" People without hope give up and run away from life. When we have hope we are filled with excitement, energy and purpose. Unleashing that renewed energy and hope is at the core of Housing the American Dream.

Housing the American Dream A Name with a Media History

Housing the American Dream was the original TV series which took viewers into the process of saving an old, historic, house. The brick 1910 Nephi Larson Home, was lifted and moved uphill in one piece on a laser-leveled large truckbed to a new foundation, three days before it was scheduled to be bulldozed in 1985 for a new bank building in Sandy, Utah.

All the work done on the Larson House was funded through "Product Placement" and by showcasing on video the local craftspeople in the building industry the excellence of their work with commentary. The relocation accomplishment on video, was the first of 22 edited episodes shown on Fox/CBS. The pioneer home's 5-color bricks, no longer made, were unique. Research found matching ones in a deconstruction yard; enough to add a garage and a master bedroom. Instead of buying a new site, a parcel was thriftily assembled from easements of five small sites, with an eye to providing a view of the Jordan River Valley, a richness the original house had lacked. Old ideas made new like NuArc ironing boards with numerous modern safety timers could be installed where old ones were between studs. Oak flooring and tile were restored and added to esthetically.

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