Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

MADISON, Wis. — A bill to extend the commercial building code enforcement deadline to next spring had its first hearing in Madison. A group of Wisconsin Republicans last week introduced Assembly Bill ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland’s Building and Housing Department got a boost during Thursday budget talks when Mayor Justin Bibb’s team backed off on a staffing shake-up that City Council members feared ...

One would think that holding property owners accountable for the state of their buildings would be considered “the low hanging fruit” when figuring out ways to turn neighborhoods around. But for far ...

SOMERSET, Pa. – Somerset County has hired a third-party building code inspection agency, setting up the county as a "go-between" linking the company and local communities, commissioners said. The ...

After Category 5 Hurricane Michael slammed into Mexico Beach, Fla., in 2018, there was a dramatic contrast in destruction: homes built at or beyond state building codes still stood, whereas many of ...