Jimmy Carter Makes Crappy Shacks
Drudge has a story today about how many of the houses built by Habitat for Humanity and Jimmy Carter, along with Hollywood celebs like Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale are falling down around their occupants. What is the cause? The fact that amateurs can’t build houses, or is it the poor ungrateful louts who live in them? Either way, the Habitat for Humanity program is a failure.
From the TimesOnline here:
RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart. Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day “blitz” organised by the charity Habitat for Humanity.
Eight years later it is better known for cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes.
A forthcoming legal battle over Fairway Oaks threatens the reputation of a charity envied for the calibre of its celebrity supporters, who range from Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt to Colin Firth, Christian Bale and Helena Bonham Carter.
The case 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.
One man pulled up his floorboards to find rubbish 5ft deep under his kitchen. Other complaints include cracking walls and rotting door frames that let in rats and ants. Many residents have complained of mildew and mysterious skin rashes.
This is simply what happens when you give valuable to people who did nothing to earn them. They don’t take care of the homes and before you know it, the house becomes a rundown crapshack. Add this to the dozens of rundown crapshacks around it, and you got yourself a real nice ghetto there, which basically makes Democrats slumlords. Which is fine, as long as they toe the line by staying out of the rich Democrat areas and vote Democrat on election day.
Somehow I get the feeling that taxpayers will bail out these failures- either by paying for new homes or paying off steep mortgages these fools took out on their crappy free homes. Michelle Malkin has more.
