Law Lets Town Tear Down Homes Deemed Dangerous | NBC 4 I-Team

A law in New York’s biggest town allows the town to demolish homes deemed “dangerous” or “abandoned” — and it is affecting hundreds of people. “This was the lot,” Phil Williams said as he stood in an empty yard in the West Hempstead neighborhood he once called home. “And as you can see, there is nothing left.” Williams went to Florida in December 2014 for knee surgery. When he returned months later in August, his house was gone. “I bought the house from my dad in 1974,” Williams recalled. “My wife and I lived there. We had six children that lived in the house.”