What kind of desert is this anyway?

For an arid climate, much of the place desert, SSOI gets an awful lot of water damage. Ceilings leak, mold grows everywhere. You better be able to deal with moldy, crusty walls if you live here.

All of this water damage has been repaired numerous times! But the mold and leakage just keeps coming back. Why? Because the apartments are not build well. America and England have far wetter climates where you don't see this in homes. The plumbing here is lame as is the construction of walls and roofs. 

The issue isn't just living with fungus on your walls, which can be toxic, but it's dealing with people who don't take much pride in their work, or who do but work with materials made by people who don't take pride in their work.