Yes.
This is the major point of contention. There is a large camp that believes that all of this is only a shortage of money due to the current economic crisis.
I believe it is structural. Fixing will require structural changes.
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Did this circle around? WARM released a full inventory and valuation of the materials they recovered from deconstructing [[instead of demolishing) a 2-story house in Hamtram. $40k at wholesale prices. Elsewhere [[Model D, I think) they're quoted as saying it cost about $20k to deconstruct it.
Even if those numbers are off -- if the recovered materials from future deconstructs will be worth less [[many of the houses which need to be demoed have burned, etc), and the labor were to cost more -- that's at least one full-time employee for a year. $20k = $400/wk for 50 weeks, or $10/hour full time for a year.
The house that was deconstructed was pretty big and had plenty of valuable material to salvage. I walked around in it while the students were hard at work.
WARM has a whole training and certification program dedicated to deconstruction and wants to open a store to sell all the reuseable materials. Imagine having your floors replaced with beautiful 60+ yr old hardwoods you can't find in any store!