An ongoing KXAN investigation reveals gaps in oversight of Texas’ homebuilding industry, leaving families dealing with expensive home repairs and years-long legal battles with builders. Our team analyzed hundreds of records and found requirements for builders vary for each municipality – with some of the largest not requiring developers to submit information about the soil under homes.
Part 1: ‘Negligent’ Construction
Lennar built hundreds of homes in Bradshaw Crossing in the last decade. KXAN found 49 different homes in the neighborhood had city permits filed for foundation repair.
Part 2: ‘Money at Stake’
KXAN takes a look at the shuttered Texas Residential Construction Commission — a short-lived agency that tried to resolve disputes between builders and homeowners.
Part 3: ‘Somebody Messed Up’
A Buda neighborhood is struggling with constant water underneath homes. Engineers found the neighborhood sitting on top of a perched aquifer cracking home foundations.
Part 4: Lawmaker Weighs Reform
Texas Sen. Nathan Johnson said he believes it may be time for the state legislature to take a closer look at the at the residential homebuilding industry after a KXAN report.
Austin-Travis County
