The Housing Crisis
from Michael L. Craver
The community was an experiment. Homeowners could build as
many additional homes as they chose. You might ask how this is possible. These
are tremendous investments to be making. Neighbors trusted each other to take
care of the expansions. Banks lifted all financial restrictions and…
After all, each dwelling requires maintenance and financing. So much time and
devotion can go into caretaking for a home. Without attention these structures
lose their personality. The financial responsibility is no less, until the loan
has graduated.
Fixing issues obviously adds to budget and strains resources. Many problems
require hands-on attention. Emergencies that come up and need to be filed
against the insurance to be repaired. Some cases are just poor construction and
have inherent flaws from the day they’d begun.
These additions tend to wear down the community. Resources spread thin. A limited
number of people are skilled enough to craft the best homes. Rare is the
tradesman who can master a piece of the home as his calling card. Residents
wanted the best for their additions but, these specialists are hard to acquire.
They come at great cost, unavailable for extended periods.
Knowing the situation, careful planning goes into having the best quality homes.
These additions which are so costly, can be easily thrown together with substandard
materials. From there, they require consistent observation. Easily falling out
of code and needing special attention.
If only they’d been conceived from a deeper perspective; Thought out well in
advance with devotion and sacrifice toward the highest quality. The unplanned
editions are always the riskiest. This strains the community and lowers the
property values.
Perhaps the homeowners divorce after the addition. This makes the upkeep
extremely hard to work. An expensive transition to single multiple-homeownership.
If only there were cost-free property management for this excess. Perhaps a
government program to help maintain these long-term investments, so the quality
is supplemented from the outside.
Fortunately, this one-town experiment was never repeated. Recklessly adding to
the community unravels the fabric in every facet. The entire town was strained
too thin because of irresponsible personal choices. Every resident suffered the
collateral damage from preventable individual choices.
Endless War
Within Temptation (within-temptation.com)
