Here's Why Thousands of Sandy-Damaged Homes Still Haven't Been Rebuilt

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 8, 2014

The city's Build It Back program, which is supposed to help homeowners rebuild their houses that were damaged during Sandy, was bogged down with red tape for years. New York Times reporters David Chen and Russ Buettner recently traced the struggles back to the Bloomberg administration's design of the program. They check in on how it's going now, as construction has just started on hundreds of houses in the past few weeks -- and we take calls from homeowners still struggling to recover.

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