This doesn’t sound like my cup of tea:
Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit group that builds low-cost housing, is opening an unorthodox ”theme park” at its world headquarters this week designed to give tourists a look at the world’s worst slums.
Millard Fuller, founder of the organization, said he expects the Global Village & Discovery Center to attract as many as 70,000 tourists in its first year of operation.
”Essentially, it’s a theme park for poverty housing,” Fuller told Reuters. ”You’ll come out of the center and walk right into a slum. You’ll see the kind of pitiful living conditions so many people in the world have.”
Tiger
I am not sure where the location of that park is, but if you are in the Texas area, please feel free to visit Dallas, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, Houston, El Paso for good examples of poverty housing. You can not miss them.
Andrea Harris
Hell, they can just come to my apartment and save all that money. (The thought of any organization spending money to actually build something that looks like what people with no money live in… it could only come from the mind of a progressive.)
cj
Why does this remind me of the French aristocracy staging bucolic tableau, complete with sheep and bo-peep outfits — at extreme expense?
I second Andrea’s comment — what a gawdawful waste of money (and time and energy) to allow some people to think that they are actually contributing to resolving a real problem.