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Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Boston Indicators, and Utile have a new report out advocating changing the Mass. building code to allow up to six-story single stair housing. This could be a game changer for building dense housing on small lots and allow for a greater variety of housing typologies (esp. family sized units) in apartments.
Legalizing Mid-Rise Single-Stair Housing in Massachusetts
There is a growing recognition that zoning reform alone won’t solve the housing crisis. This report examines staircases and the common building code
www.jchs.harvard.edu
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