By Scott Blake -July 20, 2018 3:00 am
Rhode Island again scored well in a recent report on the strength and enforcement of its homebuilding codes. However, with the 2018 hurricane season underway, several factors could put the state's housing stock at risk in the event of a major storm.
Rhode Island's residential building-code system ranked sixth out of 18 hurricane-prone states, scoring 87 out of 100 points, according to a May report from the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, a Tampa, Fla.-based research group funded by the insurance industry.
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