🇺🇸🇨🇦This LA wildfire is truly a wake-up call. 85% of homes in the US and Canada are built with wood, yet we still choose to build like this in wildfire-prone areas? 

What’s wrong with using bricks, cement, and blocks? These homes are not cheap either priced anywhere from $400K to $1.5M or even more, and yet the insurance premiums are sky-high. We end up paying mortgages for decades, but the real value of the home is zero especially if it burns down.

I just can’t wrap my head around why we continue to buy these homes, especially when one spark can destroy everything. At some point, we need to ask ourselves if we are  prioritizing the right things in home construction? 

We sincerely need to focus on quality and safety, not just affordability. It’s not as if many of them are even affordable sef.