Daily News | Almost 90% of rural Pennsylvania municipalities lack property upkeep rules
The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, which serves the General Assembly, found that 89% of the state’s 1,592 rural municipalities “have not adopted property maintenance codes,” even though 1,201 rural municipalities follow the Uniform Construction Code, a set of widely adopted construction standards.
The study also found that people living in urban areas were 24% more likely to be approved for home improvement loans than rural residents. Of the rural municipalities that do have property maintenance codes, 112 have adopted the International Property Maintenance Code, 10 have adopted guidelines from the Building Officials and Code Administrators International, and 53 have enacted their own local ordinances.
“We’re a very small township,” Secretary Annette Prisk said. “We’re struggling just to even maintain our roads.” “The problem is that people in the area have a low income,” she said, “and don’t make enough money to maintain their property.”
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