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Housing code

Regulations that define the livability of a housing unit; it usually requires minimum physical requirements for light, security, ventilation, room size, and fire egress.
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In September, the city council passed the Comprehensive Socialized Housing Code of 2018 that seeks to provide affordable and adequate housing programs for the city's urban poor.
"Through the Comprehensive Socialized Housing Code of Quezon City, we are able to protect your rights for efficient housing.
Let's not add more unnecessary regulations in the form of this local housing code, especially when it's now proven to be of very little value for the money.
The proposals are to be enshrined in a new Housing Code, an unprecedented piece of legislation for Bulgaria.
The Massachusetts "Housing Code" is officially titled State Sanitary Code Chapter II:
Worcester's Union Hill neighborhood has had more than its share of trouble in recent years, from housing code violations and crime to a fire that took the life of Firefighter Jon D.
For your own protection, only buy from a builder who is registered with an accredited body such as the National House-Building Council (NHBC), and is covered by its Sheltered Housing Code.
He was a two-time winner of the Heywood Broun Award; in 1957 he won for coverage that led to community reforms, and in 1963 he was recognized for stories leading to the prosecution of housing code violations.
The Commission spokeswoman pointed out that the executive had been in contact with the Belgian authorities at the time the Flemish 'woon code' (housing code) was adopted in 1997.
Out-of-state landlords would have to appoint an in-state agent and would risk foreclosure if they do not make repairs and pay housing code fines under a bill that has been approved by the New Hampshire House and is on its way to the Senate.
And all the way from New Haven, Conn., a group called Bregamos--founded by Rafael Ramos, whose day job is as the city's housing code inspector--imports its hip-hop portrait of gang warfare, Kingdom.
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