This building should have been condemned by the people that inspected it in 2018. Those inspectors that wrote up that report should have been empowered to condemn that building until further notice.
Yes, there would be a lot of families displaced and homeless, but, they would still be alive today, and if all those families were displaced the community would respond. If the community could not respond then the state would have to. This is a complete failure of the government. There need to be laws that empower building inspectors to shut it down.
If a building were shut down there would be repairs and/or a complete demolition to building a new one. But, this is not the way people should be living. The entire issue is more than dead citizens it is the complete failure of the government to protect the innocent from the powerful.
There was more than one building involved. Once the first building tumbled, it fell into the one right next to it, like Dominos. There is a whole lot wrong with this incident and it needs to be addressed. The parking garage at the basement of the building was falling apart and succumbing to the unstable ground under it. There is nothing here that was deterioration due to age alone, it was the ground under the building that was shifting and causing cracks in the very foundation that the building sat on.
I guarantee you this isn't the only one in the same condition. What happened to the authority of the people that are educated to know when a building is unsound to act on what they know. This is a crime. Plan and simple.
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