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edsnovaBaltimore - BCW 52 MG TD Supporting Member

Re Stan's old house and basement: About 15-20 years ago, during the fat part of the housing bubble, basement "underpinning" jobs got so think on the ground in Baltimore City that crackheads were doing most of them, directed by an alcoholic "engineer" and unsupervised by any building officials. This in rowhomes that were built much as Stan describes, except with "salmon brick" on oyster shell foundations.

Added to the dozens of long-abandoned houses that collapsed each year from pure neglect, the basement boom resulted in so many collapses in "nice neighborhoods" you would have thought—well, I thought—city residents and then officials would have taken notice. In a civilized society houses do not just fall down! Alas. This phenomenon was taken as perfectly normal. Just part of city life.

5/21/226:15 PM

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