Construction blunders break someone’s life and piggy bank. Unfortunately, these Flemish people know all about it: “Our apartment on the Eilandje no longer has anything of value. There are those who take up arms for less” | Inland

Twenty-five new-build apartments in Sint-Truiden have been declared uninhabitable, and the same number of families are on the street. The complex is literally rotten, because the wood lay in the rain for weeks. Construction blunders break someone’s life and piggy bank. That’s what these people who are confronted with it say: “The contractors who come in here now are staring at each other: ‘Which bungler has been working here, you say?’”