It makes intuitive sense and maybe is true in many places (I’m not in the US, for example), but some of the quietest flats I happened to have seen were in subsi

It makes intuitive sense and maybe is true in many places (I’m not in the US, for example), but some of the quietest flats I happened to have seen were in subsidized government housing or cost almost half of my rent. I simply did not luck out with one of those. If you are in top N% then yes, you probably just do not have to worry about noise. However, at this point we are just arguing about the definition of “the poor”. If you mean anyone who lacks cash to forfeit the tenancy agreement like it was nothing, then yes.