Entrepreneurship: Can Our Youth Learn to Build and Maintain Houses?

Someone build the house you live in. Someone installed the heating, the air conditioning, the lights, the gas. Someone maintains the lawn, someone erected the fence around the property.  Someone got paid for designing the home you live in, and in the past, that person would have been you, assisted by your family members. Can we return to those times of independent living, when we knew how to install our own electricity, repair our own plumbing, fix our own roof, mow our own lawn, and build our own house? Today's guests share their activities in teaching, training, mentoring and hiring young people to learn property building and maintenance, in order to create a new generation of entrepreneurs. Researcher, political analyst, and housing advocate Lionel Nixon looks at the challenges in bringing youth into the building trades. Building and construction contractor Rafiq Ahmad discusses the skills and experience needed to transform the many houses currently  in disrepair into beautiful homes that could change the appearance of our communities.