Impact Of Building Codes On Housing Rehabilitation

Excerpt from Impact of Building Regulations on Rehabilitation: Status and Technical Needs Throughout the United States, increasing concern is being expressed for the need to more fully utilize the existing building stock. This concern is motivated by resource shortages and the increasing cost of most materials and products used in the construction of new buildings. Additionally, the costs of land, utilities and financing have added significantly to these higher costs. In the aggregate, these costs have risen much more rapidly than the general cost of living in recent years. The effects contribute to the fact that the new construction sector, even in good years, does not provide for the Nation's building needs. Also, more than one - half of the 71 million homes in the United States are 25 years old or older. As recently as 1973, 18 percent of the dwelling units were identified as having one or more serious deficiencies. In the formulation of new national goals, President Carter and the Congress have called for greatly increased emphasis on rehabilitation of existing housing to rebuild the Nation's neighborhoods. Existing buildings and neighborhoods are viewed as contributing unique amenities that are not available through new construction. These amenities include architectural features, site characteristics and other unifying features which provide roots for an increasingly rootless America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.