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Default Amateur-built homes faling down

mm wrote:

OTOH, I don't see how one bad set of 86 homes, now matter how bad it
was (and the article says some people say they're ok) could "challenge
the bedrock philosophy behind Habitat for Humanity, claiming that
using volunteers, rather than professional builders, is causing as
many problems as it solves."


Especially since most of the 'professional builders' have been using
unskilled laborers to save themselves money while building shoddy
homes. Heck, a lot of the folks who've been building homes never
lived in houses with electricity or running water before coming to
the US, much less ever built them before. Hence all the
product-defect class action suits being filed against major
homebuilders in the past few years.

HellT