At the end of this month, I get to make a ten-minute PowerPoint presentation to an international conference about how stricter housing codes contribute to homelessness and reduce the supply of affordable housing. Seems like a no-brainer to me, but I expect few if any of the other participants will even agree that perhaps one cause of homelessness and the lack of affordable housing is strict housing codes, and even fewer will even consider the possibility that reducing the seriousness of housing codes might help to alleviate the problems.
Ten Minutes. PowerPoint. Helpful suggestions/criticisms welcome!
Below is a former convent that was converted to a rooming house and that met with great difficulties because the rooms were not up to code. I lived there in the fall of 1978 when I was down, out, and had little money.