Maybe some preplanning is in order. Why not have the state or counties keep a supply of building materials on hand for emergencies? Or neighborhoods band together to have supplies on hand? After all, in Florida there are hurricanes every year.
Require citizens to volunteer some time towards rebuilding in their local community/neighborhood.
Habitat for humanity.
Army corps of engineers.
Lousiana National Guard.
Church groups.
Americorps.
CCCs from California.
Out of work autoworkers from Detroit.
College students during the summer months.
Able bodied men on welfare from any state.
Convict "trustee" crews.
Off season firefighting contract crews.
OR Manufactured and modular homes.
That's just in a couple of minutes.
Offer good wages and provide some sort of housing, and they will come.
More jobs Americans wouldn't do....in 1940.
Welcome to wonderful world of globalist slavery.
From another thread on FR.
This advantage to the farmers of hiring temporary foreign workers was no accident. It was deliberate. In 1940, one grower wrote to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that if Washington were to help them find labor, the Bahamas would be a far better source than either the U.S. or its territory Puerto Rico. “The vast difference between the Bahama Island labor and domestic, including Puerto Rican,” wrote the farmer, “is that labor transported from the Bahama Islands can be deported and sent home, if it does not work, which cannot be done in the instance of labor from domestic United States or Puerto Rico.”
This moment of brutal honesty by a sugar farmer in the months before World War II gives us insight into the mind of shrewd employers throughout the decades. If your worker’s visa limits him to working for you, you become, in effect, the government.
A typical employer in a free market has only the power to stop paying his worker or possibly sue him if he doesn’t perform promised services. But under guest-worker programs, the employer gains the power of deportation.
In recognition of the fact that the employer/guest-worker relationship exists outside of the free market, the federal government provides special protection for these guest workers, guaranteeing adequate housing, food, and other conditions. In the rest of the economy, the enforcement mechanism for the worker’s needs is called freedom of movement. In a free market, a dissatisfied worker can walk away from a job. In the 20th-century indentured servitude of the cane fields, no such freedom existed, dragging Big Government even deeper into the realm of business.
In 1982, workers walked off the sugar field when their bosses told them the wage they would pay for a row of sugar that day. The price wasn’t worth their sweat and blood, they surmised. The next day, law enforcement greeted the workers outside their barracks, and 300 cutters were soon deported. Future cane cutters didn’t try to haggle much over wages.
Cutting sugarcane in Florida was a job Americans wouldn’t do. But that is true only when you take into account the whole package of cane-cutting employment. What Americans wouldn’t do was subject themselves to slavery, where not only their wages but their right to hold any job in America was dependent on remaining in the good graces of the boss, on whom they also depended for food and shelter.
I'm not sure they will. They won't even do those jobs close to home, why would they travel some distance to do them? It's a different world from the time of the depression. Folks just aren't desperate now, with the social safety net available in most places.
I don't think you can legally COMPEL anyone, short of convicted prisoners to do any particular work at all.