On a warm summer evening, a group of Gerritsen Beach homeowners sit around a dining room table, trading war stories about the city's storm recovery program, Build It Back.

"They put two doorknobs on the door, two doorknobs, because they made a mistake. They bought the wrong door," said Laura McCann, a participant in the Build it Back program.

Each of these six homeowners elevated their homes through Build It Back in the hopes of protecting them from the threat of future floodwaters. 

They’ve all moved back home, and they all continue to experience dangerous issues they say the program isn't adequately addressing. 

Work at Maria Gonzalez's home was finished last summer. But just days after she got her keys, she says that when she moved her entertainment into her living room, "there was a big loud thud, and it felt like the house was falling." 

It's the same story at James Relay's home.

"I didn't think the house would cave in, but I just knew that it was going to get worse and worse and worse," he said. "They had to, they literally had to do 70 percent of my house, the support underneath, over again."  

Build It Back told Natalie Caruso she could move back home on December 11. A week later, she was forced to move out again because the house was starting to sink. 

Engineers blamed a supporting beam that was never installed for the problem.

Contractors came back to fix the issue in January, but the house is still crooked. 

According to a city estimate, Build It Back has spent at least $838,000 on repairs to her house, a number that doesn’t include the January work or work the Carusos are still fighting to have done.

"My house is uneven here, my house is crooked there," she said. "All my doors upstairs do not work. You have to lift them because the whole house is tilting." 

Nearly six years after Sandy, their list of issues is so extensive, and so similar, that this group of homeowners are banding together to file a class action suit against Build It Back. 

They charge that the program left them with unsafe conditions and shoddy work, and they want to know how their homes passed inspections.

The group is hoping their suit will force the city to a forensic accounting of every home in the Build It Back program, and they're seeking financial damages for what they call their pain and suffering.

"We can't all be wrong," Gonzalez said. 

The group is inviting other Build It Back participants to join in their suit.

Because it has yet to be filed, the city Law Department could not offer any comment.