Middle Housing: Updates, Resources and the Road to 2030
ICC has prepared materials to better identify applicable code requirements for middle housing, tracked developments in the 2027 I-Code development cycle, and has launched additional consensus building forums to facilitate additional discussions for future code updates.

“Middle housing” generally describes a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types—such as triplexes, quadplexes, and small apartment buildings—that fall between detached single-family or low-rise townhomes governed by the International Residential Code® (IRC), and larger multifamily developments. Like the latter, middle…