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Building codes, the foundational rules for the construction industry, are undergoing a powerful transformation. Traditionally ...

Note: This is the seventh update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law. Click ...

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Building codes don’t make the evening news. They’re a few hundred pages of technical requirements that almost nobody reads.

States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. Some of these changes include allowing low-rise apartment buildings to ...