What happened with the Ghost Ship was a tragedy, but when you consider how many spaces like this there are and how infrequently this sort of thing happens, the risk is actually quite low, much lower then many acceptable activities. I personally would love to see more unique spaces and communities like this spring up everywhere. Life is not perfectly safe, and trying to regulate it to be so is what pushes art and things like this to the edge of our culture. I’d rather some sort of practical guide to cheap things that can be done to make a place safer and that cities work with them to improve safety as much as possible, without shutting down or punishing them.
I agree. 
Looking at the photos of that place, it looked glorious, not in bad shape.
That’s one thing that confused me about the Ghost Ship incident, looking at the stuff they had in there, there was very easily that value in imported statues and visual decorum. I kept wondering how a poor artist community could afford all that cool stuff. That big garuda alone would have sold for $20k
