{"id":6542,"date":"2025-10-17T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6542\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:56:34","slug":"after-bronx-public-housing-collapse-hud-laid-off-its-building-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6542\/","title":{"rendered":"After Bronx Public Housing Collapse, HUD Laid Off Its Building Inspectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A gas explosion in a public housing project in the Bronx caused the chimney of the 20-story building to collapse on Oct. 1, sending a shower of bricks and debris tumbling to the sidewalks as residents dashed for the exits. Nobody was injured, and two weeks later, with a temporary boiler in place, tenants are returning to their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Federal law requires all government-subsidized properties, including Mitchel Houses in the Bronx, to undergo inspections on an ongoing basis. But it\u2019s not clear when this property was last visited by a federal inspector: On the same day as the near-disaster in the Bronx, the federal government shut down, sending federal housing inspectors and their data on furlough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gas explosion in a public housing project in the Bronx caused the chimney of the 20-story building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5869,5886,1603,5885,609,2710,1722,9,24,63,1413,1491,129,131,130,5884],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-citylab","tag-europe","tag-finance","tag-generic-1st-rr-future","tag-government","tag-law","tag-markets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-policy","tag-real-estate","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-urban-snc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}