High Stakes: Can Single-Exit Buildings Tackle the Housing Shortage?

Is Housing Overregulated? First, we make the building codes, then they shape our cities, which then shape us. Occasionally, when the codes become too thick and the cost too high, we fight back, as in the quest to lower the cost for multi-family housing by allowing the cheaper wood construction we know from single family homes. Model codes now permit up to six floors in what is aptly called,…