ONLY IN AMERICA!!$2.6 Million Taxpayer Clean Up Begins KB sings favorite old tune with a whole new meaning – “Home, home on the range.” After Southridge was designated a million dollar, #1 US Army Corps of Engineers priority clean up site KB continued to build and sell home. We as taxpayers need to ask elected official, HUD and VA how KB Home was allowed to continue building and selling 600 homes on the bomb-ridden land despite extensive public exposure. Please write your elected officials and request answers as to why the opportunistic KB Home was allowed to continue to build. Truly it can be said that KB made a Lemonade Empire out of Lemons, that gave a “BOOM” to the homebuilding industry like creative Corporate America has never done before. Corporate Welfare is alive and well in America. US Army Corp of Engineers - Southridge Report - News 8 Video: Don Wall reports - See Fact Sheet - Southridge Hills subdivision. ABC 20/20 - KB Home built on bombs
State Affairs House Committee to regulate homebuilders Broadcasts of Live Coverage State Affairs hearing on HB3404 – 4/18/05 Advance to 4:52.
Of the 502 complaints officially filed with TRCC over the past 15 months – 206 filed for SIRP the dispute esolution however, only 137 were eligible. 365 could not use TRCC if they wanted to. Based on these figures clearly, TRCC is a $2.5 Million state agency that selectively serves a very small portion of the home buying public stuck with defective homes.
Consumers want homebuilder reforms "The TRCC was not created to help the consumers," consumer advocate John Cobarruvias said. "It was created for the builders; it was created by the builders." ...State Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, has filed a bill that would erase the fee the commission charges consumers to enter complaint resolution, increase builders' registration fees to $500 and require all builders to participate in the Texas Star Builder process to improve quality... There are now more than 18,000 builders registered to construct homes in Texas. The TRCC has denied just eight applications. Video:Byron Harris reports
Arlington bombing range cleanup begins ...The Army Corps of Engineers is beginning the $1 million cleanup of 162 acres ..."We live on pins and needles right now," Bradley said. "You never know when it's going to go." Video: Don Wall reports
Editorial: Chairman of the NJ State Commission of Investigation
Friday, 22 April 2005
Home-building report seeks to fix broken system W. Cary Edwards is chairman of the State Commission of Investigation The State Commission of Investigation, of which I am chairman, recently completed an inquiry into new-home construction and inspections in New Jersey, and the picture that emerged is not a pretty one. The final report of this unprecedented investigation sets forth a catalog of shoddy and deficient construction practices, lax regulatory oversight and poor remediation options that routinely plunge unsuspecting new-home purchasers into a quagmire of waste, fraud and abuse. And it's not just in one community, but all over the state — in single homes and housing developments, high-priced and affordable, in suburban and urban areas across New Jersey, particularly with regard to large-scale production builders.
ATTENTION:TEXAS COMMITTEE HEARING TO REGULATE HOMEBUILDERS
Saturday, 16 April 2005
TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING HB 3404Representative Jessica Farrar Relating to the regulation of and claims against residential home builders. CONTACT: If you can attend or wish to testify -
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Express News: TRCC faces reform
Saturday, 16 April 2005
Builders commision could face reforms Authored by state Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, House Bill 3404 contains provisions that, if passed, would give homeowners some relief in the state-administered dispute resolution process that critics charge is dominated by the construction industry... "One big concern of mine is that consumer rights are diminished in the current statute," Farrar said. "It is ridiculous that this statute actually regulates consumers (on behalf of) the home building industry."
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