Single-stair building code reforms are spreading as states and cities seek more small multifamily housing while maintaining ...

American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most ...

I have a one story brick building – residential, 1 family. We have an open stairway to the basement at the bottom of which is a door to the basement. The bottom of the stairway is enclosed. I want to ...

What do stairs have to do with California’s housing crisis? More than you might think, say many local policymakers. Cities across the state have been considering building code changes to let new ...

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