RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.

Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day “blitz” organised by the charity Habitat for Humanity.

Eight years later it is better known for cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes.

Some residents dismiss their neighbours’ worries. Diennal Fields, 51, said people did not know how to look after their homes: “It’s simple stuff: if there is mildew, don’t get a lawyer, get a bottle of bleach.”

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In the first place the people have to turn off the TV get off the couch and  clean the dirt out once in awhile!  Thats the problem with helping people by giving and giving to them.  Many people don’t want to work and expect the country to give them whatever they need in life. I have seen new homes with the windows broken out, doors half off and junk piled in the yard after only five years or less and those people then complain about the free home! Sick lazy no good couch potatoes!