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by potato3732842 512 days ago
The permit isn't what keeps you safe (except from being shot by the government at the behest of people who think like you). What keeps you safe is not doing a shit job. When working in one's own home it's far easier to just over-build things than to engineer things to the bare minimum or pay someone to tell you what that minimum is.

Also slumlords are the guys doubling the number of units in an existing triple decker, not the guys building new stuff.