With Connecticut Foundations Crumbling, ‘Your Home Is Now Worthless’

[elleng]

'Across nearly 20 towns in northeastern Connecticut, a slow-motion disaster is unfolding, as local officials and homeowners wrestle with an extraordinary phenomenon. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of home foundations that have been poured since the 1980s are cracking, with fissures so large you can slip a hand inside.'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/nyregion/with-connecticut-foundations-crumbling-your-home-is-now-worthless.html?

[WhiteTara]

1. What a nightmare for those people!

[yeoman6987]

2. I hate this but not surprising

Homes went up so fast and not in the great way of the 50's and 60's. Homes today are worse and will have similar problems in a decade or two.

[SamKnause]

3. Unimaginable stress !!!

[NutmegYankee]

4. The state could force the insurers to cover the homes, but won't.

The nsurance industry is a sacred cow here.

[bigwillq]

5. CT is a mess.

From the government on down.