Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has issued an executive order to study allowing single stair construction in some residential buildings, with the goal of changing the state’s building code to increase housing production and lower costs. The state’s building code...
Today’s guest column is by Emily Hamilton, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This article is adapted and edited from testimony delivered this week before the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance of the US House...
Modern building codes are being credited for the roughly 50% decline in post-hurricane mortgage delinquency rates, according to a new report from the Insurance Institute of Business & Home Safety and CoreLogic. The report cited the building codes that emerged in...
Massachusetts High Court Upholds Transit-Zoning Mandate for 177 Communities
