To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Easing Fire Safety Rules

Last year, six states eliminated a fire-safety code requiring apartment buildings taller than three stories to have at least ...
Newser on MSN

2-staircase apartment complexes are slowly vanishing

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

Could ‘single-stair reform’ come to San Diego? It may be the key to an apartment building boom

A single staircase in a San Diego apartment building. Some stakeholders embrace what’s called “single stair reform in the debate over housing development. (Photo by Times of San Diego staff) This ...
New Haven Independent

YIMBY Cry: Up With Housing, Down With Stairs

Felicity Maxwell, Parker Welch, Sam Naylor, and Chris Gannon at the conference’s final day. Fire Chief Alston, single-stairwell skeptic: “Why would anyone want to limit ingress and egress to any large ...
PBS

Could Single-Staircase Apartment Buildings Boost Housing?

City becomes first in California to allow mid-rise single-stair apartments. Culver City is the first city in California to allow mid-rise apartment buildings with a single staircase, a move supporters ...

State fire marshal misses deadline for apartment building safety report, angering housing advocates

State Fire Marshall blows deadline for apartment building safety report, angering housing advocates ...