We left our last episode wondering about the costs of building a house with earth-friendly materials.
VOTER HUB: Find explainers, an interactive virtual ballot guide and everything else you need to know to vote Nov. 5. Turns out it's cheap! So if it's cheap? Have more people jumped on the opportunity to build this way and why hasn't it taken hold in urban settings?
To answer these questions, we follow up with Miguel Angel Perez, an earth builder from Baja, to discuss the costs of earth building and chat with , a New Yorker who moved from California to Baja to find better and more affordable living conditions. Lastly, we sit down with , director of urban planning in Tecate, to ask for his take on the viability of earth building in city settings.Port of entry has a fresh new season for you with more rich stories of our border region.
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