Save the Vulcan! 200 working-class Oakland artists are crowfunding to save their homes and fight the-rent-is-too-damned-high

Not if you’d read the article and @Xeno 's comments: “We are zoned live/work, have a multi-milllion dollar sprinkler system, fire alarms (with very regular tests) and have regular inspections. The Vulcan (like a lot of East Bay warehouses) has been above board for decades.link

If there’s an existing framework that supports the position, then I’d have found an argument leading with that to be much more compelling.

Well, if you’d read the article, you’d have noticed it.

I don’t have the least interest in what these people do for a living, or how much cultural value they’re adding to the community.

Yes, that’s obvious.