You can prevent people from dying in a house fire by just not having any homes either.

Relaxing safety requirements is not the solution to housing crisis. At best it will just increase the divide. We're going to be packing people like sardines into the cheapest (and consequently most dangerous) "housing" we could build, while people who can afford the luxury live in homes built to modern safety standards.

These regulations aren't created just for fun, they're created because people died. Let's not take a step backwards.