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This slide explains a lot about how ICC insiders think. Apartment buildings are for poor people who cannot be trusted.

There’s truth here, but also unwarranted logical leaps. For example, while fire risk definitely does follow people of lower socioeconomic status, it’s still an open question as to whether imposing stricter requirements on new buildings of the type where low-SES residents live will help

Maybe they’ll continue to move into new and aged multifamily at the same rate. Maybe they’ll be displaced to single-family. Maybe they’ll remain in older multifamily. Ultimately it’s an empirical question, which is bad news for the ICC’s process because it’s almost all a priori logic and no empirics