1.   After three years, he left and worked as a Dayton housing inspector.

2.   But Rinaldi and private engineers argued that housing inspectors do not have the expertise to make that call, and should defer to the judgment of building inspectors.

3.   Each year the housing inspector orders repairs, and they go undone, she said.

4.   Friday, city officials denied that anything housing inspectors noted on their trips to the Harlem building required a referral to the Buildings Department.

5.   He said city housing inspectors repeatedly visited the building and never reported any warning signs of the disaster to the Building Department.

6.   Her rescue came last May, when a housing inspector saw her and called the police.

7.   Housing inspectors, who have no engineering training, are responsible for quality-of-life issues like vermin infestation and lack of hot water.

8.   Housing inspectors are stretched thin, and politicians and the public are hardly clamoring to spend money on housing for this largely invisible population.

9.   Housing inspectors found that many of the violations were cleared up last October, but many others were not.

10.   Housing inspectors had logged thousands of violations in the building since Mount Wilson bought it.