A state Senate report reveals a frequent offender in the building code violation game: foreclosed, bank-owned properties. The report follows the April deaths of a 12-year-old Bronx boy and his parents, who had been living in an illegally subdivided and bank-foreclosed home, and finds that "nearly all 2,000 foreclosed homes in New York City contributed to the total of 3,751 open building violations." [Wall Street Journal]
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