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Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)
About Here
About Here explains how North American building codes requiring two staircases make small multi-story apartment buildings hard to build, and contrasts this with places that allow single-stair designs.
HN commenters share it in housing and single-stair egress threads as an enjoyable, accessible explainer of the two-stair rule.
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