IL proposes standard architectural plant catalog for automatic pre-licensing regime

Iniciativa Liberal announced a package to be presented in the coming week aimed at tackling the housing crisis, which includes a catalog of standard architectural plans designed to simplify bureaucracy and speed up housing availability through an automatic pre-licensing system.

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This is currently a party proposal being submitted to Parliament, so nothing has changed yet, but if approved it could eventually simplify and speed up building and licensing procedures for housing.

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