[slackstation]

If you are arguing from the perspective of low income people, most of whom rent, they aren't looking in detail at how the building was built, just the price.

In other words, in this future poor neighbourhoods would collapse like 3rd world countries while rich neighbourhoods would get hairline cracks in the drywall.

[AnthonyMouse]

They had this problem in cases of activists going after slumlords that weren't maintaining their buildings. The problem was, in order to get tenants to rent a building in that state, the slumlords had to discount the rent by pretty much exactly the cost of the repairs not made. Paying for the repairs would have required (and allowed) rents to be increased to more than the existing tenants were able to pay.

So every time the activists forced a slumlord to bring their building to code, fixing it allowed them to increase the rent and the people the activists were trying to help were forced to move out because they could no longer afford it.

But at least they made it less likely that the whole city would catch on fire.

[nickpsecurity]

That's interesting. You have a link for that?