single-family

The majority-Latino community is made up of modest single-family homes, most with fences around their frontyards.

The legislation wouldn’t have much of an effect on rebuilding after L.A.’s wildfires, as single-family home construction is exempt and Newsom already waived other parts of the law by executive order.

How about redoing the building code to make it possible to construct small apartment buildings like single-family homes—that is, quickly and cheaply?

Those types of buildings, with regional variations that include Boston’s triple-deckers, Chicago’s three-flats, and L.A.’s dingbats, are often similar in size to large single-family homes.

The problem, he concluded, was that the duplex guys were playing by a different set of rules—a Dallas building code adopted from the IRC, or International Residential Code, the country’s model code for single-family houses.