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Home Builders Association says 2021 Michigan residential code will raise costs; signals legal challenge
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The Home Builders Association of Michigan told a House subcommittee that adopting the 2021 Michigan Residential Code would increase construction costs, and the association said it has filed a notice of intent to sue LARA and may seek an injunction to block the code’s adoption.
Dawn Crandall, executive vice president for government relations at the Home Builders Association of Michigan, told the House Subcommittee on Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Insurance and Financial Services on May 20 that the state’s move to adopt the 2021 Michigan Residential Code will add materially to the cost of building homes and that her organization intends to pursue legal action to stop the change.
Crandall said Michigan’s housing supply is well below need and that regulatory and materials costs have increased sharply. “Michigan truly is in a housing crisis,” she told the committee, citing statewide permit declines since 2005. She said the state needs about 119,000 housing units, and that a new single-family median price in 2025 is roughly $430,000, which raises the income needed to qualify for a mortgage to about $138,000.
The association focused most of its criticism on recent changes to the code adoption process at the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) and on provisions in the 2021 Michigan Residential Code (MRC) that the…
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