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Scott Turner: “When [Kansas City, Missouri] adopted [the IECC] in 2023, for…”

Featuring: Scott Turner, Republican | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | National

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HUD Secretary Scott Turner on cutting energy regulations for new construction

Published | Video Starts at 00:41

And so we have rescinded this final determination to restore this flexibility and restore this control back to builders and developers around our country. And a great example of this clay is in Kansas City, Missouri. When [Kansas City, Missouri] adopted [the IECC] in 2023, for the first three months, there were no new home starts. There was a 22% decrease in permits pool for new construction. There was 78% reduction in the number of builders that were in Kansas City. (00:41–08:11)

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Asserts that adopting the IECC in Kansas City led to no new home starts for three months.

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