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June 17, 2007
Habitats Unfit For Humanity
Posted by Dave Blount at June 17, 2007 8:41 PM
For all his egregious flaws, at least we can all agree that Jimmy Carter has done great work with Habitat for Humanity. Or can we?
Mary Zeigler was the proud owner of a low-cost home in Jacksonville's Fairway Oaks development, built by volunteers who included Jimmy the Dhimmi himself, as well as wife Rosalynn. She still owns the home, but she's no longer so proud:
I've got a 25-year mortgage, and I've got stuff that needs to be addressed or I'm just paying my mortgage in vain, because I won't have a house in 25 years because it will be falling apart.
She's not the only Fairway Oaks resident with problems. Of 56 who answered a survey, 41 reported cracked foundations, 22 reported cracked walls, and 48 complained that their houses were infested with insects and/or rodents, a common problem in houses with holes in them.
Other beneficiaries of Jimmy's ostentatious largess complained of nails popping out of the plasterboard, mold, rotting door frames, and leaky plumbing. Also, people have been developing rashes, which might have something to do with their neighborhood having been constructed atop a garbage dump.
Sorry Mary. Looks like you get what you pay for.
On a tip from Wiggins.
