The North Carolina Legislature Passed the Best Affordable Housing Reform in America

And no one is talking about it

1 SUMMARY

In August of 2023, North Carolina became the first State to change its Residential 1-2 Family Residential Building Code to the 1-4 Family Code, a reform that will result in lower-cost triplexes & quads, more viable missing middle housing, and more flexible alignment with local zoning.

The reform (HB488) is potentially revolutionary for affordabi…