Texas Housing Codes

Wednesday March 28

Spent the afternoon researching a request from a city in Texas on single family housing inspections. The city is looking at municipal government inspection programs of single-family structures upon change in water utility and possibly other utilities (i.e.: electrical and gas).  They currently conducts systematic inspections of multi-family dwelling developments that are 5 years old and older with 5 or more dwelling units.  Could they expand inspections to single-family structures to further aide in the preservation of housing stock? They want to include the possibility of such a program in our budget preparation for FY 2012-13.

I found a series of resources on different code procedures across the county. Its all technical stuff but if anyones interested in building codes…

Berkley, CA – Code 12.48.070

http://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Berkeley/cgi/NewSmartCompile.pl?code=Berkeley&ext=html&key=336&path=/ca/berkeley/html/Berkeley12/Berkeley1248/Berkeley1248.html

San Jose, CA - Concentrated Code Enforcement Program

http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/services4.asp

Urbandale, IA –

http://www.urbandale.org/housing.cfm

American Society of Home Inspectors – this is just generally useful.

http://www.ashi.org/customers/faq.asp

Lancaster, PA – Rental single family units

http://www.cityoflancasterca.org/index.aspx?page=527

Pasadena, CA

http://ww2.cityofpasadena.net/permitcenter/pdf/OIPApplication.pdf