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D.C. to consider ‘single-stair’ policy for midsize multifamily buildings | Washington Business Journal

May 01, 2025
  • D.C. Policy Center

On April 30, 2025, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted in Washington Business Journal:

“The idea is to increase design flexibility,” Yesim Sayin, executive director of the D.C. Policy Center, a research and analysis think tank, told me. “What that does is actually increase the usable space in the building and makes infill development more profitable.”

A single stairway, Sayin added, “will change the entire pro forma for the building and it could make things that don’t happen, now happen.”

Read More: D.C. to consider ‘single-stair’ policy for midsize multifamily buildings
Additional reading: Taking Stock of the District’s Housing Stock: Capacity, Affordability, and Pressures on Family Housing

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