Don't underestimate the power we have when we come together, this has been demonstrated throughout history in many movements: Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage, Black Lives Matter etc. etc.As it stands today we have not recieved any relief from our mortgage company and will be expecting rent on the first as usual.

And protecting the profitability of the project is solely the job of the developer, attorneys, architects (of which I am one), and civil engineers have other expertise and incentives.Otherwise, in most of the states where I have worked start with either a civil engineer or an architect.

BUT, there are exigent circumstances like plumbing leaks, fire, or police emergency.As for civil penalty, I have never heard of the police charging the property tax paying landlord a fine for such a violation.

Customers are brought to normal civil court and are routinely overheard saying "The customer is always right!"

I’m sure the fixed cost of running an apartment in NYC is high, you have a moratorium on evictions, a governor threatening civil war in a state telling citizens not to pay rent, and talking for 2 hours a day on national tv about how to make pasta.

After eighteen months of discovery in the litigation, I came to the conclusion the Plaintiff children would probably win. 

Any earth disturbance over 5,000 sq. ft requires an ERSA plan, which is performed by a civil engineer, and details the existing conditions of the site, and the proposed earth disturbance.

If things get really bad I will make a claim on my commercial STR insurance under 'loss of business income due to civil authority'.

Many of these folks are professional engineers - soils, geologic, structural, MEP, civil, utility. 

Keeping a cool head will make breaking off a contract easier and cleaner, without the need to litigate.