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Home-builder crackdown urged.
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With thousands of victims, New Jersey’s home-building industry – and the regulators who police it – is in need of a massive overhaul, a 2 1/2-year state investigation released yesterday concluded. Consumers throughout the state have moved into defective homes, often as a result of both unscrupulous builders and incompetent or corrupt inspectors, investigators from the State Commission of Investigation found. Finding themselves living in a variety of nightmarish situations, from cracked foundations to leaky roofs, the homeowners had no place to turn |
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