Crumbling Foundations

More than 1,700 homeowners with crumbling concrete basements have now requested assistance from a state program giving out grants to help repair them. The Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, or CFSIC, says towns with the most applicants include Vernon with more than 300, followed by Tolland, and Manchester. More than a half dozen to...

Filling out and paying your taxes is tough enough.  Imagine if you’re dealing with a crumbling basement and have to sort out what that means for your tax situation. Congressman Joe Courtney and an IRS representative will host a webinar on the subject Monday, February 10, 2020 at 2 p.m.  It is open to the public.  In addition to discussing&#823...

A legislative working group has released a new quality control plan for quarries in light of the crumbling foundations problem afflicting many eastern Connecticut homeowners. The General Assembly’s Quarries Working Group, which has been meeting since September, also studied the workforce currently available to help homeowners repair their foundatio...

A newly released report estimated Massachusetts has as many as 2,000 homes with crumbling concrete, and it could cost $350 million to fix them. A special commission was formed in Massachusetts a few years after the discovery of the crumbling concrete problem in our state, a story broken by NBC Connecticut Investigates in 2015. The report said the d...

One hundred homes with crumbling concrete have had their foundations replaced with help from the state insurance company created in response to the crisis. Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, Inc. (CFSIC), the state insurance company providing money to homeowners announced that milestone Wednesday, nearly a year after it launched. T...

The Connecticut Bond Commission has agreed to release the next $20 million in funding to assist people in north central and eastern Connecticut with defective concrete basements.

The state program assisting people with defective concrete basements has released new data on its work.

Connecticut’s elected leaders pledged $100 million in $20 million annual portions to address the crumbling concrete basements across central and northeastern Connecticut, but an inability to release the money in a timely manner has left dozens of families in a costly state of limbo.

Eversource has re-evaluated its policy of charging hundreds of dollars in natural gas reactivation fees to Connecticut homeowners replacing their crumbling basements, and will no longer do so.

The person overseeing the program helping so many suffering from concrete crumbling beneath their homes told NBC Connecticut Investigates he is stepping down earlier than planned.

Two companies at the center of a state investigation into crumbling foundations have renewed an agreement with the state to stop selling materials or products for residential foundations from a quarry in Willington.

Some people who can’t afford to fix their homes with crumbling concrete have just stopped paying their mortgages, and it could be a trend on the rise.

Twenty-one legislators from both sides of the table have joined forces to ask for an investigation into how insurance carriers changed their policies to avoid covering homes with crumbling foundations.