South Bay Beaches Housing Bubble 
... $3,120 a month on a high-end Fusion home. I am no financial wizard. It looks waaaaay too complicated for my taste, and I don't like prepayment penalties at all. Why all the complication? A fixed rate 150 year mortgage would be easier to understand than this gobbledygook! Show me a table of what my payment, principal, and interest are for the next umpteen years, that's what I want to see. When I studied the Centex complex, the units, and then the pictures I took, I decided it wasn't the colors that made the place seem drab to me, it was the architecture. The Centex complex strikes me as very "institutional" looking, with the units looking almost like the city tenements of 80-100 years ago.

Del. contractor files $10M lawsuit against home builder
Lawyers for a Delaware contractor will tour the site of the Glen Riddle development today as part of their preparation to seek more than $10 million, which they say is owed to their client, from building giant Centex Homes...The Delaware contractor has already won one breach of contract battle with Centex. Horsey obtained a lien against Centex/Taylor from Circuit Court on Aug. 11, 2004, for just over $2.3 million.

Consumers for Quality Homes
Corporate builders are using subcontractors, often employing a labor force without the training required to build quality homes. This practice of using a shadow workforce leads to poor workmanship and record number of homeowner complaints...In the spring of 2006 CFQH surveyed Centex Homes consumers in several markets.
How would you rate your experience with Centex Homes?  POOR: 41%, FAIR: 24%, GOOD: 35%
How would you rate the quality of your new home built by Centex Homes?
POOR: 31%, AVERAGE: 28%,GOOD: 26%, EXCELLENT: 15%  Read More...

Valenti Allows Franklin and Centex Homes To Sneak Back Into Public Housing Redevelopment Not only were Franklin, Saunders, etc voted out once but twice and one participant in the process gave them a 0 out of a possible 100 points... Now less than 3 months later HUD... re-development...will replace a public garden and a boxing club that once was gathering spot for youths in the area, is involved in a number of million dollar projects in the area which has produced not one unit of affordable workforce housing.  Another participant in the redevelopment of the Cohen Way housing re-development and incidentally along with Franklin is not mentioned in the press release put out by Valenti announcing the selling of public lands to a private developer, Habitat for Humanity is Centex Homes.