Homebuilders — always, everywhere, and all at once — face challenges when it comes to securing timely building inspections they require in their build cycles to “progress” and complete new homes for ...

NEW ORLEANS — A new report by the New Orleans inspector general finds City Hall has handed over too much control to private, third-party building safety inspectors, whose work was often shoddy or ...

7News dug deeper into what caused a rowhouse under renovation to collapse, killing a worker last December, just a week after a safety inspection at the job site. The row home on the 1100 block of V St ...

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