It makes no sense at all. They are considering money not spent as money earned.
Where do the “free houses” come from?
Oooh, oooh, I know this one!
House fairies appear in the middle of the night and build them! You can attract them by leaving out dishes of gumdrops at the building site.
The housing are usually HUD houses. Their coat to the individual is based on “ability to pay”. Tax payer picks up the remainder
FYI in the ninth ward of NOLA most of the houses were HUD papa Landrieu had established HUD under Carter the local paper was doing a series of articles exposing three groups who owned and were abusing the system when Katrina hit. The storm ended the investigation whi h no doubt would have taken down a few politicians involved
the peanut farmer’s habitat for humanity I would think. Or rehabed homes that were condemned.