Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a series of bills Monday related to housing, healthcare, labor, data privacy and the environment.

For the first time in about 100 years, a growing number of states are deciding one staircase in apartment complexes is enough ...

Because that’s exactly what happened in the mountains near Rye, Colorado, and the result is one of the most extraordinary ...

An elevator outage is inconvenient for most renters. For older adults with limited mobility, it can mean being trapped at home. That’s what happened to residents of St. Giles Manor II in Pinellas Park ...

California’s fire safety regulators were asked to study whether mid-rise apartments can go with a single staircase.

Though modern safety measures, such as automatic sprinkler systems, smoke detectors and self-closing doors reduce the risks associated with smoke and flame, they "do not fully substitute for the ...

We recently built our own affordable housing project near Fields Corner. One of the biggest challenges to developers of small multi-family buildings like us is the long-standing second-stairwell rule.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Two months past a statutory deadline, California’s top fire safety regulator published a report Monday on whether and ...

Rojas advocated for the single-stair legislation in 2024 but said the state building code, which is updated every three years ...

The General Assembly is expected to pass Senate Bill 298, a lengthy omnibus bill that includes a repeal of the 2024 single-stair exit law.

In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state’s fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, ...