[constance_chlore]

How is the number of occupants the relevant denominator, rather than the number of fires? If one guy dies in a post-2000 townhome, that's 5% of the total fatal incidents.

Because that headline result is not that fewer people died per fire (although it's about the same in both categories—about 1.15-1.2), but that fewer people died period, mostly because there was a lower rate of fires. This means the relevant denominator is "how many people were living in each kind of housing?". To catch up to the same overall death rate, there would need to be 80-90 more fires in newer multifamily homes, which is a few times more than the number there actually were. That seems very, very unlikely to be a chance fluctuation. So if you live in newer multifamily housing, you were considerably less likely to die in a fire than if you live in (newer or older, but especially older) single-family housing.

 

[policyenthusiast]

Because that headline result is not that fewer people died per fire (although it's about the same in both categories—about 1.15-1.2), but that fewer people died period, mostly because there was a lower rate of fires. This means the relevant denominator is "how many people were living in each kind of housing?". To catch up to the same overall death rate, there would need to be 80-90 more fires in newer multifamily homes, which is a few times more than the number there actually were. That seems very, very unlikely to be a chance fluctuation. So if you live in newer multifamily housing, you were considerably less likely to die in a fire than if you live in (newer or older, but especially older) single-family housing.

Certainly possible. I'd be interested to see how this data holds up in a couple decades.

 

[MacLac]

Drove by Griesbach and they are demo’ing the old housing stock on the North side like crazy! Making way for Carney’s affordable housing!

 

[IanO]

A fun infill tour with IDEA yesterday. Nice to meet such a diversity of professionals from the industry and explore a wide-variety of infill projects.

Learn more about IDEA: https://www.infilledmonton.com/

 

[YEG imagineer]

Garneau infill. 10942 87 Ave 2 storey brick house is all boarded up and all the trees and shrubs surrounding it were cut down today. And on the NE corner of 87 Ave and 110 St, they put up the forms this morning and concrete started in the afternoon. Speediest transition I’ve seen.

 

[kcantor]

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4 trees and 16 shrubs, not bad.

Yahooo!!! A cheat sheet on how to get permits to build ugly!