Jimmy Carter is as bad a homebuilder as he was a President

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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.

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April Charney, a lawyer representing many of the 85 homeowners in Fairway Oaks, said she had no problems taking on Habitat for Humanity, despite its status as a “darling of liberal social activists”. She said the charity should have told people that part of the estate had been built on a rubbish dump.

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.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle5439388.ece

[Yoink 7]

I worked for Club Med at the Crested Butte CO club when the Carter Foundation rented out the place for it's annual retreat. He was auctioning off an amoire he built as one of many things he was donating to the Foundation..

I think it went for $50,000...

Got to meet and greet and have dinner with him... nice man, bad views of today's world

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I think it went for $50,000...

You know what they say about fools and their money.

[Yoink 7]

I think it went for $50,000...

You know what they say about fools and their money.

What.... that in this case it cost an ARMoire and a leg?

[Jasman0717 9]

Whatever happened to Billy Beer

[William33 110]

What do you want for free? This rhetoric is not proven and the free homes are.

Step up with some real evidence that the free homes are problematic.

[jundp 191]

Sorry, but I've worked with Habitat for Humanity before and they're a great charity.

They do what they intend to do: give people a new beginning in low-cost or free housing.

[tallcoolone 102]

Jimmy Carter was a joke as a President..

He keeps trying to overcome his bad reputation as President.

His daughter Amy is/was ugly as homemade soap.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

What do you want for free? This rhetoric is not proven and the free homes are.

Step up with some real evidence that the free homes are problematic.

Crappy upkeep will create similar results. People often don't appreciate things that they don't work for.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

What do you want for free? This rhetoric is not proven and the free homes are.

Step up with some real evidence that the free homes are problematic.

Crappy upkeep will create similar results. People often don't appreciate things that they don't work for.

No kidding. Especially after 8 years of neglect.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Sorry, but I've worked with Habitat for Humanity before and they're a great charity.

They do what they intend to do: give people a new beginning in low-cost or free housing.

on a rubbish dump!

[Ling Ling 22]

Jimmy Carter was a joke as a President..

He keeps trying to overcome his bad reputation as President.

His daughter Amy is/was ugly as homemade soap.

Besides your lack of attraction to his daughter, was there something else that made him fail your approval rating?

[Nagishkaw 510]

Whatever happened to Billy Beer

Didn't he get caught peeing on the runway or something?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Sorry, but I've worked with Habitat for Humanity before and they're a great charity.

They do what they intend to do: give people a new beginning in low-cost or free housing.

on a rubbish dump!

Maybe Carter thinks that's what they deserve

[Danno 1,228]

This is typical Drive-by news reporting.

How does someone file a news story like this without including info about the Building inspections done on these houses?

In my area (and most I would think) soil compaction tests and visual inspection of the footing would have revealed that a house was built on unstable soil... not to mention 5 feet of trash.

While it's true a lot of the work is done by unskilled hands, still there are on-site professionals (paid) to monitor and assign low skill people to low skill jobs.

Seems like a news story taking shots at HFH without even checking basic facts.

While I delight in sticking my thumb in the eye of ungrateful people who suck off the good will of others, I am not ready to say these few crybaby home owners are indicative of most people who have received housing this way.

If a high number of these projects across the country, seem to slide into slum hole like, conditions due to home owner neglect-abuse THAT would be a story worth reporting on.