As Massachusetts leaders keep searching for solutions to the housing crunch, a top academic institution is pointing to the role the state’s building codes play in restricting multifamily development.

Massachusetts is studying single-stair building codes and zoning reforms to address a projected need for 222,000 new homes by 2035. The commission will review safety, cost, and design impacts. AI ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Changes could be coming to longstanding Massachusetts building codes that advocates say would make it much easier to build ...

The primary challenge for Vineet Nair and his colleagues is developing the 11th edition of the Massachusetts State Building Code. This requires meticulous review of the 2024 International Code Council ...

Massachusetts’ building codes governing handicapped accessibility are hampering renovations of old housing stock that could help remedy an affordable housing crisis, according to an editorial in the ...

Changes could be coming to longstanding Massachusetts building codes that advocates say would make it much easier to build multifamily housing. Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Thursday ...