You have to make a choice. High homelessness, "communism", or cheap unregulated housing options. You cant have safety and freedom. I do think building codes a

You have to make a choice. High homelessness, "communism", or cheap unregulated housing options. You cant have safety and freedom. I do think building codes are valid in cities. Outside of cities it should be a free for all, but its not. However, building codes now are insanely overreaching. I have lived in japan for a few years and found many of the features in buildings here would never be allowed in the US. Minimum stairwell widths, door sizes, building sizes, parking lot requirements, etc. Modern Japanese buildings are probably 100 times safer but would fail american building code. Point is if the argument is we need regulation for safety it needs to actually be for safety, and minimally.