You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

Good to hear that you're on the mend Popeye.

I may have got slightly carried away with the sheet painting.. somehow, a helicopter has now sneaked in there...

It's odd isn't it, that somehow, with all our advanced skills & knowledge we can still build tiny,cramped,sunless dwellings made of inferior materials with little or no outdoor space when we're very well aware of the problems involved with such homes, including not just the materials but the effect on those obliged to live in them.
But of course, those who build such homes are apparently only concerned with making money - as much as possible, as quickly as possible.

And this reality is made all the more bitter when we look back at earlier times when our govt of the day decided to start building state houses, which met the need for both jobs & housing; with many being out of work & people forced to live in slum dwellings.
This was a time though, when politician's actually wanted to help & improve conditions.
A time when a politician could say:

"Then Minister of Housing Walter Nash told New Zealand it could not prosper or progress with a population that "lack[s] the conditions necessary for a 'home' and 'home life', in the best and fullest meaning of those words".

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/a...d=11346757

It seems highly unlikely that any of the present govt could - or would - ever say anything even approaching that. We really are idiots...