Model building code standards should be strong to improve housing for the future.
Customers buying new homes have the right to expect a quality product. the Department should not waste this opportunity to improve our housing.
A strong building code will reduce Virginia’s reliance on fossil fuels and help low and moderate-income residents in one of the most cost-effective ways possible. Housing built for the low-end market is particularly vulnerable to poor construction. Buyers usually don’t know where corners have been cut.
Virginians should not have to live with leaky, inefficient homes. The Department of Housing and Community Development should restore and adopt the full 2012 model building code standards, to improve our housing construction now and into the future.
