California housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report

By Ben Christopher | CalMatters

In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state’s fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, airier and better lit apartment buildings in California’s housing-strapped cities.

The Office of the State Fire Marshal was given until Jan. 1, 2026, to come up with a report on single-stair apartment buildings — a type of mid-sized multifamily development legal in much of the world...