Safety regulations won't keep you warm at night.
Ghost Ship was an absolute tragedy, and a close dear friend was on her way there that night. It made national news. But it's funny, the homeless encampment fires that keep happening in West Oakland just five miles away, that keep killing people don't get the same kind of national coverage. There was one just this past April.
To be able to be used for commercial occupancy, the buildings have an up-to-code sprinkler system. Keeping those systems up to code requires yearly inspections and walkthroughs and testing. So just keep doing those while we let people live in them?
Ghost Ship is good to bring up. In the wake of it neighboring San Francisco shut down several warehomes, forcing people out onto the streets in one of the most expensive housing markets in the world. There was no real help from the city or fire marshals to bring things up to code, just a bunch of red tape. Critically, no money was made available from the government to do any renovations to bring things up to code and stop people from dying in fires. Just evictions.
> In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.