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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.
For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to... →
Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then... →