A New Building Collapse Forces Aleppo to Revisit Its Most Perilous Housing Crisis

A New Building Collapse Forces Aleppo to Revisit Its Most Perilous Housing Crisis

The recent collapse of a residential building in the Al-Amiriyah neighborhood has reopened one of Aleppo’s most urgent and long-deferred service and humanitarian files: structurally damaged buildings that stand on the brink of collapse. The incident revives memories of a succession of similar tragedies in the city’s eastern districts in the years following the former regime’s takeover of Aleppo in late 2016. Several building collapses claimed do…