There are a lot of unfinished houses in the neighborhoods of Botswana. Some have been left unfinished for years and have trees and bushes growing in them. They seem almost abandoned and may be.
A house two doors from our house has been worked on off and
on since we came to Botswana and is still far from being completed. In January
the owner told us she would move in about April. We failed to ask April of
which year.
Many of the houses have piles of bricks or dirt out front.
Often the piles extend into the road or neighbor’s property. One house we walk
past regularly has had bricks covering half the road for the eighteen months we
have been here and only in the last month has work started on the foundation of
the house.
We asked why so many houses were left uncompleted and were
told that people just did not budget well enough to have enough money to finish
the house once they started.
Not only are there houses left unfinished but commercial
buildings also seem to be left unfinished for extended periods of time.
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