People in my community are purchasing medical gear (n95 and surgical gown) from China and donate them to local hospitals but it’s not enough...

One of my clients  and another associate  have donated their units to health care professionals during the crisis.they specialize is short term housing for travelling nurses etc. 

Five truckloads and trailers donated, two dumpster.

Otherwise, if you just want deductions, perhaps invest in a bad deal or, etter yet, do something good and donate a bunch of money to charity.

Now who do you think makes donations to the politicians , wholesalers or licensed agents?

Maybe or community will donate money to help you rebuild (again that is a risk) too bad we can’t buy a insurance policy on kindness and taking care of each other.Yoru flood nerd Robert

Remove all the abandoned property and dispose of it (trash, landfill, or donation center).

If I can afford to donate, you can too.

At some point folks throw in the towel and just cold SMS (yes has the DNC/pissing off folks potential) its all in how you word the SMS.You aren't trying to solicit donations to some fund, sell some gizmo you are trying to buy a house.  

Humanity is on the brink of greatness, and all we need to do is shift our mindset for what we use all of our hard work to accomplish.If this is inappropriate for this forum, I apologize for not conveying this in a way that matters to you, but I argue that the underlying ideas can be converted into anything you put your mind to.Sorry for formatting errors from pasting from google drive.Find houses that are falling behind on repair and maintenance.Bike and walk dogs through the current neighborhood.Recently widowed homeowners are a good candidate.Find a small amount of time to donate to helping neighbors do easy projects.Use this time as an opportunity to learn what they need, what support they have, long term goals, etc.Create community events to take care of the properties that are farthest behind.Create an actual govt program to be more productive with govt owned properties.Instead of selling the property to an investor, fix the property with the specific intent of providing housing for some form of underserved population.This is the reasoning behind structuring as a non-profit.If created correctly might be a great way to scale by using other “flippers” as partners.