Chinese Drywall Toxic?

Tucked back in a neighborhood off of Manhattan Boulevard in Harvey are several cute homes you’d never even know about unless you turned off Manhattan onto 11th Street. Built by New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, these homes have given hard-working …

In fall 2006, Habitat for Humanity of Lee and Hendry counties received a generous donation of drywall from a company in New Mexico, but it turned out to be tainted. The drywall came at a critical time when the United States saw a shortage of building material during the housing boom and allowed Habitat to [...]

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Lydia Adorno’s kitchen was her pride and joy. As a new Habitat for Humanity homeowner in 2007, the 55-year-old Adorno spent days pouring over tile samples at Home Depot to pick out the perfect backsplash for her kitchen. She looked at …

The happy endings are beginning for 25 Habitat for Humanity families in Lee County whose homes were discovered last year to have defective Chinese drywall. Fixing of the homes is almost complete and six families have moved back, said Kitty Green …

The New Orleans area Habitat for Humanity is rebuilding several homes after they were found to have toxic Chinese drywall. WGNO News Reporter Vanessa Bolano has the latest from Hollygrove.

The New Orleans area Habitat for Humanity is rebuilding several homes after they were found to have toxic Chinese drywall. WGNO News Reporter Vanessa Bolano has the latest from Hollygrove. Months after construction slowed down on Ferry Place in Hollygrove …

Habitat for Humanity says it will be gutting about 24 Florida homes it built with defective Chinese drywall. The homes were built between 2006 and 2009 in Lehigh Acres, Cape Coral, North Fort Myers and Bonita Springs with Chinese drywall donated through Habitat’s national organization. This isn’t Habitat for Humanity’s first run-in with Chinese drywall. [...]

At least 70 Habitat for Humanity homes in New Orleans are slated to be gutted because they were built with defective Chinese drywall. According to a ProPublica report, Habitat is still running tests on more than 300 homes the group built in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, so the number of homes scheduled for [...]

At least 70 Habitat for Humanity homes in New Orleans are slated to be gutted because they were built with defective Chinese drywall . According to a ProPublica report, Habitat is still running tests on …

NEW ORLEANS — Trying to figure out how to tell her son Michael that his home has Chinese drywall in it brings Jovan Washington to tears. “And it is hard to explain to a 7-year-old that we are going to have to one day move out of our home. Our home is what is making [...]