Not Quite McMansions

They're not quite McMansions, but homes the government built for Border Patrol agents had big price tags. The Homeland Security inspector general finds, DHS wasted millions of dollars on housing in the Arizona town of Ajo, near the Mexican border. It spent $680,000 to build each of 21 houses. The average local price for a house is $90,000. DHS spent $17 million on land. It purchased 20 mobile homes for more than $1,000 each. The inspector general says DHS should have built apartments instead. The project dates to 2008, when DHS doubled the size of the Border Patrol, and discovered a housing shortage in Arizona.