How does it do more good? It doesn't really matter if normal people live in a slightly better home. Yeah, it'd still be nice and all, but it does more good to build a chair lift on the stairs for someone who can't walk, or to rebuild a home with toxic mold. To actually fix the things that were making the quality of somekne's life shitty is better than making someone's home slightly cooler when they're home isn't even what's causing anything bad in their life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not normal people, like people living in the slums: fixing a whole neighborhood rather than just one home.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know, and they are normal people. They would just get a slightly nicer looking house, they'd still live in the slums. Maybe they wouldn't have to deal with a broken window or a half ass dryer anymore, but I feel like it does more good to really help one family who seriously needs it than to kinda help a lot of people who didn't need it as much, or even at all. I mean, if I could feed a bunch of really hungry friends or a starving little orphan child, I'd feed the child. My friends would be uncompfortable and maybe grumpy just like the ghetto people would have to deal with hanging their clothes outside to dry, but the child would really bennifit from it, just like a family slowly getting mold poisioning.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sorry, my computer is being effing retarded, I didn't mean to delete that comment! No, what I was saying was, in my (apparantly unclear) post, the families receiving homes would be poor families (for lack of a better example) like those in Africa where their homes are literally mud huts, with thatch, or tin roofs, dirt floors, and glass-less windows: whereas the current families (generally) receiving homes are no worse off than the average lower-class families of today. Like, I do agree that the older episodes of cancer-stricken wonder children, who live in dilapidated houses unfit for even sewer rats deserve an amazingly lavish and decadent home, but in my example, I'm saying that it would be cool, or more fruitful to give numerous poor, street-dwellers modest homes, instead of (I'm not judging how "deserving" someone is over another) people who live in a house no worse off than I and my family have lived in our entire lives. If that makes sense....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But it wouldn't make for good TV and nobody would watch it, thus lessening how many people become aware of the issue and resulting in less positive impact.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think watching neighborhoods of dirt-poor, practically homeless, people all getting modest homes would be just as interesting as someone who doesn't need a new house all that much get a ridiculously extravagent house. And what issue would be getting less attention?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

THe main interest of the show is in seeing all the cool stuff. So watching people making something average awesome is interesting, but watching people making something shitty normal is a waste of relaxation time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"doesn't need a new house all that much" Are you kidding me? In every single episode of this show I've watched the people always deserved the home. It's always people whose homes are literally falling apart and someone is the family is deathly sick.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

technically making tons of houses could just be one house.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A couple times they've gone into an area after a natural disaster and rebuilt several homes. I had some friends help them build 7 homes in 7 days in a community that was desteoyed by a tornado.

by Anonymous 12 years ago