America’s elevator shortage is making housing more expensive, buildings less accessible, and cities less dynamic—all because of bad regulations and union protectionism.

Jonathan Baron, an interior designer who has spent nearly 30 years sprucing up luxury buildings all over New York, knows the elevator usually comes last. Developers are always eager to talk about the ...

Just running an elevator up and down is enough to determine the “structural health” of a building, a new study reveals. The elevator itself might run smoothly up and down, but the heavy counterweights ...