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They're Building the Housing Crisis | Vanessa Wingårdh (www.youtube.com)

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New construction homes are supposed to be the answer to America's housing shortage. Corporate greed has infiltrated. D.R. Horton builds starter homes, luxury homes, apartments and entire rental communities. They say they’re helping to solve the housing crisis. What they won't tell you is that their homes are the subject of multiple class action lawsuits not only for horrible build quality but for misleading their first time home buyers.

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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'll take my ratty old manufactured home over a lot of new stick built houses. Damn shame insurance sucks on manufactured homes.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

There's manufactured homes and then there's manufactured homes. Mobile homes are rightfully discriminated against by insurance companies because they're genuinely flimsy compared to "real" buildings, but modular homes are a whole different story and are probably better than stick-built.