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Lax enforcement let Florida towers skirt inspections for years

By Michael LaForgia, Adam Playford and Lazaro Gamio
New York Times·
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Lax enforcement let Florida towers skirt inspections for years
Lax enforcement let Florida towers skirt inspections for years

The collapse of Champlain Towers South has prompted a review of hundreds of older high-rises. Some buildings ignored or delayed action on serious maintenance issues.

Out of the smoke and cinders of a city convulsed by race riots and an immigration crisis, the towers kept rising, each new development remaking

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