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displaced? as we just heard from our reporter, this was a vital west african community, and who knows if they ll ever be able to go back to their homes. what s the city doing for where they ll be living? reporter: it s such a good point and i think what you re pointing to is really the root issue, which is not just behind the fire that i m standing in front of in the building that was destroyed, but really all of the fires across all of new york city. i think that when we look at our low-income nycha fires, where a lot of these fires occur, especially in the cold winter months where the heat is not at the standard we need it to be, a lot of the buildings don t have not only the safety measures in place, but also, they don t have the oversight and enforcement of building code. it s not a sexy issue to talk about the building codes. but frankly, building codes are the things that save lives. and i think that the bigger issue here is that there are legislative fixes in the new york city

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