The Status of Building Regulations for Housing Rehabilitation: A National Symposium.
Publication Date:
2/1/1996
Performing Organization(s):
Building Technology, Inc. Silver Spring, MD
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) National Research Center Upper Marlboro, MD
Availability:
HUD USER, P.O. Box 23268, Washington, DC 20026-3268; phone (800) 245-2691; fax (202) 708-9981; or TDD (800) 927-7589
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Descriptors:
Housing rehabilitation. Laws and regulations. Construction codes. Model building codes. States.
Abstract:
This report describes the results of the first National Symposium on the Status of Building Rehabilitation Regulations, sponsored by HUD in 1995. The report describes the model codes--the Southern Building Code Congress International, the International Code of Building Officials, and the Building Officials Code of America--and their enforcement. The report highlights the experiences of three States--Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey--with their own rehabilitation regulations. The symposium participants also recommended that HUD: (1) develop a national policy on housing rehabilitation; (2) conduct a nationwide survey of rehabilitation code enforcement; (3) create self-contained, national model rehabilitation code provisions to be proposed for adoption by the three model code organizations; (4) identify acceptable compliance alternatives to regulatory requirements; and (5) prepare practical guidance materials containing methods of complying with rehabilitation-related legislative mandates.
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