The Rural Studio of Auburn University designs and builds one community project every year in Hale County, deep in the Alabama, one of the poorest regions of the USA, where 40 percent of the inhabitants live far below the poverty line. Home to four extended families, it epitomizes the shaming and disregarded depths of rural deprivation in the American South. Most of the 150 inhabitants live in decaying trailers or very basic houses, and there are no indigenous community facilities.
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