This proposal might seem like a good idea in theory, but I just don't see how it could work in practice, if the objective is to mend so-called Broken Britain.
There are some people with skills still in demand who can find work in different parts of the country. Employers are willing to pay expenses, which is why there are gangs of engineers from the North East working in parts of Essex and East Anglia, who stay in lodgings during the week and return to their families at weekends.
The problem is that we have ghettos, where few people have skills which anybody wants. We have people with no skills at all, who have never had any experience of work. Who wants to employ them? They will be left in the ghettos when the people with employable skills have moved out. Their communities won't die, because there will still be people living in them. But nobody will care. They will be an underclass, demonised by the Daily Mail, and become the latter day unwashed poor.
The sad fact is that there just aren't enough jobs to go round. What we need is the return of manufacturing, where the unskilled and semi-skilled can earn an honest crust and begin to have respect for their own communities.
It's a stupid proposal, which somehow reminds me of Nulabour social engineering. It seems OK in theory and will cost money, but in the end won't achieve anything.