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I would rather live in a cheaply made wooden house than a cheaply made concrete one. The simple common way to build a wooden house is massively redundant. Concrete houses use post and slab, even in poor countries. So in Nairobi, they were having six building collapses per month.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2016/0430/Why-ar...




Your source seems to contradict 'six buliding collapses per month':

"A six-story building collapsed Friday night in Nairobi, killing at least a dozen people. Several buildings in Kenya have collapsed in the past year. Why?"


My source for the 6/month figure is this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPYJ4l-lBI

Only the big ones end up in the media..

But you are right it seems like an overestimate. I found this showing 17 buildings collapsed in eight years, citing a CMU study:

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2016/05/02/kenya-s-l...




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