Mad, Bad, or Greedy?

A gallery of 8 photos taken at the Colonia of Las Lajas in December 2004.

 

Note the two slender pillars supporting a flying bedroom on the left. It doesn't look like they are true vertical. Looking at the scaffolding, it looks as if the whole house is in fact 'flying'. Is this safe building practice?
Look at the ghastly utilitarian concrete box someone has planted above, on the left. On the right you can see how those support pillars have either been made by gerry-builders, or the ground has already shifted and moved them - even more alarming.
Maybe 80 apartments? Perched on top of what must be a truly impressive view. Now, global warming is a fact, and it's increasing, and it brings a LOT more rain - as we're already noticing. Without vegetation, will the ground under that block of apartments hold together when the next hurricane strikes?
Insect housing. A honeycomb of concrete. Cells are square rather than hexagonal. In Las Lajas everything is upside down: you arrive at the roof of your house and climb downstairs.
Would you like to live here underneath the sewage pipes of the elite, above? What are they building here? A cave? A public toilet?
It's like medieval times: the castle people living above, protected by a wall from the scum living below.
Responsible for the mess! Here's the number if you want to complain.
Perhaps those responsible for this, above, haven't heard what happened to Easter Island, or to Haiti recently, or . . . coming soon to YOU: landslides of mud caused by reckless deforestation.