Building codes specify where to put electrical outlets, and poverty is not impacted by where to place an electrical outlet.
You are an embarrassment to the ET community. The context of his statement is different. Building codes also include building zones. In the poorer areas of these cities there is no economy, only liquor stores, fast food and check cashing businesses. In Chicago Acorn is fighting against Wal-Mart building in the poor areas. Wal-Mart brings lower prices and 200 jobs. TIF programs go to the better areas of the cities, The Dems who run the cities find it better to keep the poor down. It allows them to suck money from the state and Fed. It also allows "Black leaders" to pretend they matter.
The only thing wrong with the quotation is that, despite the hysterical protestations of a faction of die-hards on the right, it is irrelevant to this political campaign. This election is a referendum on unregulated trickle-down economics. The pendulum is swinging the other way, as well it should.
Your wrong man, zoning and building codes are two completely different departments. One doesn't have anything to do with the other.
He meant zones not codes. Maybe I am assuming but I put the chance of me correct at 99.9%. So I took the liberty of trying to correct the mis-read. For BigDave to make an argument against codes is disingenuous. He argued that there is no connection between electric outlets and poverty. He will nitpick any single point and paint it against a whole concept. Cheap talk we call it.