Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order to look at reducing the number of stairs required in certain residential ...

By rethinking the building code and allowing single-stair apartment buildings, the city made small-lot, mid-rise apartments ...

Changes could be coming to longstanding Massachusetts building codes that advocates say would make it much easier to build ...

Fire safety regulators were asked to study whether mid-rise apartments can go with a single staircase. They’re more than a ...

Fire codes have long required two staircases in mid-rise apartment buildings. But advocates worry that drives up construction costs. So the state will study doing away with one.

Gov. Maura Healey wants to update the state building code by legalizing single-stair, mid-rise housing units to make it easier to construct more homes across Massachusetts, an effort that has raised ...

California’s fire safety regulators were asked to study whether mid-rise apartments can go with a single staircase. They’re more than a month late.

“The windows in the hallways only have screens, so there’s nothing protecting against outside elements,” the original poster ...

Healey orders study of single‑stair mid‑rise buildings; a 2024 report says the change could unlock roughly 130,000 homes.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Thursday to study the idea of allowing single-stair construction for certain residential buildings higher than three stories. Currently, state ...

Maura Healey says towns resisting compliance with the controversial MBTA zoning law won’t be blocked from fire safety grants, as she considers a housing production tool that fire officials describe as ...