And the company will promptly dissolve and disappear without facing consequences

Home owners insurance is going to pay out and sue the ever-loving crap out of everyone to recoup.

The headline is misleading. A vacant secondary property that is maintained but boarded up is not the same as a family’s primary residence, which “family home” implies. No one has become unhoused due to the demolition.

Doesn’t change anything about how messed up it is to demolish the wrong property, though.

Is it really a “family home” if it was boarded up for 15 years? Home implies that the family lives there