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June 17, 2007
Habitats Unfit For Humanity
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 17, 2007 8:41 PM
Comments
Maybe that's why he's setting up shop in the West Bank. Better housing construction.
Posted by: mega at June 17, 2007 9:09 PM
Seconds till someone like our new lefty troll shows up and asks if we prefer the poor to live on the streets?
5...4...3...2...
Posted by: Darth Bacon at June 17, 2007 9:58 PM
So. Joker Jimmah's house of cards is tumbling down. Well, well.
(Distinct lack of surprise noted).
Posted by: Anonymous at June 17, 2007 10:25 PM
I am in no way defending 'Peanut' but, for a structure to last, a certain amount of maintenance is required. Is HforH responsible for maintenance? Also, go to any planned community of 'cookie-cutter' homes, interview the owners and I'll guarantee that at least 41 of 50 will have a few choice words for the contractor.
Having said that, I definitely put Carter in the category of "people we wish would go away".
Posted by: Jimbo at June 18, 2007 5:15 AM
Don't judge them by results, but by intentions. Right?
For those of you on the left, that was sarcasm.
Posted by: Crush Liberalism at June 18, 2007 6:59 AM
I like the observation that some of the houses Carter help build have cracked foundations.
Sort of poetic, really.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 18, 2007 9:47 AM
karl rove is at it again
Posted by: dave at June 18, 2007 11:05 AM
a certain amount of maintenance is required.
That's news to me, when it comes to a house's foundation. Enlighten me, what regular maintenance should I be doing to my house foundation? Digging it up and relaying it every five years?
Posted by: Anonymous at June 18, 2007 11:47 AM
.....Seconds till someone like our new lefty troll shows up and asks if we prefer the poor to live on the streets?
has it been seconds yet?
not that I consider myself a lefty troll - I actually have no loyalty to either party - but Habitat is what it is - an organization that has a goal of elimintaing poverty housing in the world - they assist working class people/families in attaining safe, decent, affordable, homes. The partner families own the homes and are responsible for maintenance - and no, there should not be "foundation" maintenance - but no one is perfect - HFH has built over 200,000 homes worldwide with volunteers and partner families around the world - I think that's quite an accomplishment!
Posted by: not a lefty troll at June 19, 2007 7:07 AM
Yep. It appears that HFH is a decent, noble organization, despite some failures along the way. It's just too bad that Jimmah is associated with it. Makes it tough to separate the two entities.
Posted by: fellowes at June 19, 2007 4:30 PM
