A recent Reno subreddit thread with the question what does Reno need? had what we thought was an ingenious response by yankykiwi saying “my last city had a sort of tinkers thrift store attached to the dump.”
The commenter went on to explain that if someone dropped off a broken home item, such as an oven, dishwasher, lawnmower, after bringing it in, it would be fixed and sold, or given to a person in need. They added the place employed people with practical knowledge who struggled getting hired in other places to do the fixing.
Locals immediately responded they would volunteer or want to start such a program here…