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Leaky homes crisis

Once upon a time, some grown-ups wanted to build houses so people could live in them. They made the houses by putting together lots of parts like walls, roofs, and windows. But some of the grown-ups didn't do a very good job when they built the houses. They used the wrong materials or didn't put them together the right way.

When the houses were finished, the people who lived in them started noticing something strange. The walls were wet and moldy, and the floors were squishy. The roofs were leaking, and the windows weren't letting fresh air in. This made the people feel sick, and the houses started falling apart.

The grown-ups realized they had made a big mistake. They called it the "leaky homes crisis." It meant that lots of houses all over the country were built the wrong way, and now they needed to be fixed.

The grown-ups had to figure out how to fix the houses so people could live in them without getting sick or the house falling apart. They had to take apart the walls and roofs and put them back together the right way. This cost a lot of money, and some people couldn't afford it.

The leaky homes crisis was a bad situation for lots of people, but the grown-ups learned an important lesson. They realized that they needed to be careful and do things the right way when building houses so that people could be happy and healthy in them.
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