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Hand-Build an Earth Sheltered House For $5,000 – Green Building Elements
Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs.
Sustainable housebuilding may not be foremost in their minds.
But one young couple in Wales managing on an annual income of just $10,000 went ahead and built their own cheap home anyway, sustainably, mostly out of materials from "a rubbish pile somewhere."
They had wanted to spend as much time as possible at home while their two children were young. Their nearby woodlands ecological management work would have been impractical if they were paying a mortgage.
So they enlisted some help from family, and sometimes just from people passing by, and from any of their friends who stopped by to visit.
The future… ? If there is one for humans, it might look more like this than the scam game going on in the USA over housing and real estate.
I've posted this house before. The spouse and I will almost definitely be living in a house almost exactly like this within the next decade. Its the closest thing to a "10-year plan" we have.
one step closer to my fairy dreams.
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