Now Open: The Mud Huts of Montgomery
By Silver Springer • Oct 15th, 2007 • Category: Business and Economic Development, Government and Politics
Get ready for a whole new level of housing right here in Montgomery County! Hidden in the woody setting of Wheaton’s Winding Creek Park, your quiet affordable oasis is within arm’s reach!
Just minutes from downtown Washington, D.C., the location gives you easy access to I-495 yet secluded from the hectic hustle and bustle of a cosmopolitan center.
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This hot new community is getting rave reviews, Montgomery County Park Police Calls it, ‘‘a sophisticated dirt bunkerâ€.
Every home comes “…complete with divided rooms, a wooden doorframe and a white wooden door…â€
Craftsmanship is all in the tools used, the door ways in particular are “made flat with a knife or work spatula.â€
But builders didn’t forget the traditional touch. The Mud Huts of Montgomery are reminiscent of the barrios found South of the Border, just read what Michael Ketover noticed in the well appointed model home.*
 “When he saw the structure, [I] noticed soda cans, Spanish-language newspapers and fresh footprints around it.â€
Jerry Jones brought the family pet and browsed around to find a “metal digging stick, extra pieces of wood and beer bottles near the bunker†giving that third world feel.
Fit for a King!
Affordable is all in the name, residents will tout the largest bathroom in D.C. area! Shower, shit and urinate in the natural waters of Wheaton’s Winding Creek!**
Your grand entrance is a “hole big enough for an adult to crawl throughâ€!
Initially the 2 bedroom floor plan will be available, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be pleasantly surprised.
Ketover took a look inside the mud huts and was shocked to find two spacious rooms;â€The interior was about 4 feet high, but offered plenty of room for a number of people to sleep comfortablyâ€, he said.
Phase one is going fast but don’t worry because a second phase is just around the corner! Lt. Karen Petrarca, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County division of the Maryland-National Capital Park Police, said, “she has seen another shelter built in a similar fashion”.
So what are you waiting for? this community won’t last long. The Mud Huts of Montgomery, third world just moments from the nations captial!
*Open for a limited time only.
**WARNING: Because you are sharing with others, water supply is not guaranteed to be disease free, may contaminate surrounding neighborhoods.
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I have to admit, this is the most complex setup I’ve seen. Back in College Park, I used to see homeless person camps on the side of Mowatt (in the woods), but this takes the cake.
Don’t demolish it. Jerry A McCoy might consider it historical.
Is a chicken coop an optional amenity?
Spectacular find. If you come across any Silver Spring relics, can I have them so I can sell them on eBay? The Historical Society might want to bid on them.
Time to ship these illegal mexicans back to where they came from!
ByeBye MoCo: First of all, they’re probably from El Salvador (yes, not all Hispanics are Mexican. And lastly, why don’t you go after the illegal Eastern Europeans? Don’t like brownish people?
Yeah, we surely don’t need people who are inventive enough to build a cool mud hut like this in the United States. Let’s keep those jobs safe for lazy entitled white folks, since we have such a surplus of them in MoCo anyway.
I understand the mud huts are no more. I still think the best type of affordable housing would be 4% mortgages , with mortgages backed by some kind of government bond
Only you sick people in Silver Spring who appreciate people like that Mayor Lane hobo would ever look at these primitive housing as something as funny. Leggett is already allowing over-occupancy of small homes in our beautiful Montgomery County neighborhoods and wants to build affordable housing “ghettos” on every last piece of public land. Why not out public parks too. I’m surprised that Leggett didn’t force MNCPPC to make this a shrine to future housing development in Montgomery County.
Anonymously,
Leggett isn’t “allowing” anything. Its called global and regional growth. You either make a place for people we want in our society, or let people like you ignore them when they build huts in the ground.
Oh the irony! We all forget a year ago there was a black lady who had to put her kids inside a storage facility because she had no where else to go when she was working. Guess what happened to the poor thing? She was arrested, thrown in jail and her kids are in foster care, talk about the double standards!
Will Mr. Leggett let all the people go who stole a loaf of bread to feed their starving families out of jail?
[quote comment="2840"]Oh the irony! We all forget a year ago there was a black lady who had to put her kids inside a storage facility because she had no where else to go when she was working. Guess what happened to the poor thing? She was arrested, thrown in jail and her kids are in foster care, talk about the double standards!
Will Mr. Leggett let all the people go who stole a loaf of bread to feed their starving families out of jail?[/quote]
And people wonder why we cry that there is injustice. I’m surprise so many see this as a funny news-topic when it should be taken seriously. So you mean to tell me I can go to a park and built my own house without being arrested? This should not be taken lightly. Why should certain people be allowed to do unlawful things and get away with it, while others are put in jail. As for RB other illegal immigrants aren’t out protesting for a right they know they can’t afford until they become legal so they abide by their limited realm and wait quitely. Many illegal immigrants are tracked and we still have INS deporting people (yet they can’t seem to deport enough border people cause ti would cost too much :|), it’s only South of the border that seems to get away with so much, and for what? What makes them special? Construction? Since I travel I know and have seen that this trade is not limited to just certain people. In WVA the jobs that the border people claim no one can do are being done by whites, other southern states the hotel housekeeping, construction, and road work are being done by both black and white. So stop buying into the slogan that no one will do the work they do. Guess what someone did, and someone will. I wish the government would be upfront: If there is a true agenda for these people being here, please treat us like adults and tell the truth, stop bullsh8ing us.