A year later, the number of troubled buildings remains at 400.

"But the vast majority of troubled buildings were eventually worked out," he said.

But they agreed that the proper response to fires in troubled buildings was an extraordinarily complex question.

But it shows how a troubled building can slip through the regulatory cracks for decades.

We could transform the nearly 100 troubled buildings into a grand national historic park of play and wonder.

In all, the city developed a dozen or so core programs to deal with its stock of troubled buildings.

As a result, apartments in many troubled buildings have become pariahs of the marketplace.

One big problem, brokers said, was their growing realization that a major portion of the homes on the market are deeply troubled buildings.

For tenants, getting a troubled building into a receiver's hands quickly is usually a plus.

The sponsors' own financial woes have been largely responsible for the turmoil in troubled buildings.