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Homeowners with crumbling foundations ask Gov. Healey to take action [Video]

Dozens of Massachusetts homeowners facing crumbling foundations went to Beacon Hill to plead with Gov. Maura Healey to take action. For years, state lawmakers have failed to move on a plan to financially help replace failing basements across the state, but now these homeowners say it’s time for the governor to stand behind her promises and move forward unilaterally.They believe Gov. Healey can use an executive order to form a commission that would study how the state can help and recommend a clear financial path forward, hopefully initiating some movement in the legislature.The governor’s office, however, would not weigh in on that proposal.”We need her help, and we need it now,” said Michelle Loglisci, founder of the group Mass Residents Against Crumbling Foundations, outside the Governor’s Office. “Here we are eight, almost nine years later, and nothing has happened to help this group of homeowners.”The homeowners — whose basements are …

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