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After decades with long-term tenants, the brothers calculated that getting the apartments back up to code would cost thousands of dollars that couldn’t be recouped at the artificially low rent cap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Some fear the blaze structurally weakened the site or that any repairs carried out were insufficient or not up to code.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025

“City and county employees are still hard at work in their office spaces but they’re tired, old, sometimes decrepit and oftentimes no longer up to code in terms of earthquake” safety requirements.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024

It could cost you a great deal if your project isn’t up to code.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

It had an electric stove, but the wiring was not exactly up to code, with faulty connectors, exposed lines, and buzzing switches.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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