{"id":97,"date":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","slug":"new-task-force-begins-reevaluating-louisianas-building-code-to-make-homes-more-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/22\/new-task-force-begins-reevaluating-louisianas-building-code-to-make-homes-more-affordable\/","title":{"rendered":"New Task Force Begins Reevaluating Louisiana&#8217;s Building Code to Make Homes More Affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Rising home prices in Louisiana are making homeownership less attainable, partly due to costly building codes and regulations. Government rules now add over 26% to new home costs, with building codes contributing the most. Virginia cut regulatory costs by removing unnecessary code requirements and using technology to streamline processes, saving thousands per home. Louisiana&#039;s new task force aims to study and reform building codes to reduce costs while maintaining safety, improving affordability statewide.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/pelicanpolicy.org\/opportunity-policy\/new-task-force-louisianas-building-code\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising home prices in Louisiana are making homeownership less attainable, partly due to costly building codes and regulations. Government rules now add over 26% to new home costs, with building codes contributing the most. Virginia cut regulatory costs by removing unnecessary code requirements and using technology to streamline processes, saving thousands per home. Louisiana&#039;s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.priyajacobbatonrouge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}