South Florida real estate attorney Bill Sklar on a Florida task force examining condo laws after the Surfside collapse to determine if changes are needed.
Engineers say it can take just 30 years for condominium buildings to reach a point when owners can no longer delay making critical repairs.
In the Miami region, two out of every three condo buildings are more than 30 years old, according to data compiled by real-estate data firm Zillow for The Wall Street Journal. In at least seven other Florida cities, some three-quarters of condo buildings have hit that age.
Many of the aging towers line the beachfront, where salt corrosion and other forces are speeding their decline. That is leaving thousands of buildings saddled with multimillion-dollar repair costs and little notion of how to pay for them.
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Mental health advocates say a Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital patient with cognitive disabilities and a diet restriction choked to death on fast food not typically allowed in the state hospital, a claim a New Jersey health official denies.
The patient died Thursday at Morristown Medical Center, according to Robert Davison, CEO of the Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris.
New Jersey Department of Health spokesperson Dawn Thomas disputed the claim on Sunday. Thomas, who declined to identify the victim, said that on April 15, a Greystone patient suffered a medical emergency, not related to choking, and was transferred to the hospital. The patient passed away at the hospital several days later.
DOVER More than a year in the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate the time and attention of government officials and health care providers while another health care crisis the opioid epidemic rages on.
But in Morris County, a novel outreach program to engage and treat those who are suffering from substance addiction has not lost a step.
Thursday morning, local, county, state and federal leaders gathered at JFK Commons to celebrate four years of the Morris County Sheriff s Office Hope One program.
Sheriff James Gannon said he launched Hope One in a converted police tactical van on April 3, 2017, with a simple plan: bringing services to the client.
Self-injury support group says it s through being a best-kept secret, plants roots in NJ
Love More Judge Less provides help to those who have harmed themselves
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Vicki Duffy wears her forearm scars like badges of courage.
She reveals them to anyone who fears there is no escape from the horror of self-harm.
The scars show a history of cutting, burning of flesh and other forms of self-injury. Without these, there s not a story that can be seen, Duffy said. This is a story that people can look at and say What did you do there?
Nearly 20 years after she embarked on a mission to help others avoid her own destructive cycle, Duffy finally has a home for her nonprofit group, Love More Judge Less.