# Issues with severity Low
Low severity is for issues with zero or near-zero Annual Interest. Low and Medium issues are small elegance improvements — the broken windows of a code base, per the Broken Window Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory: left unfixed, developers stop caring for elegant code, costing extra maintenance long term. Severity is inferred from the issue annual interest and thresholds in Project Properties > Issue and Debt.
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This trend metric is written in CQLinq, C# LINQ over the NDepend code model. It ships with every new NDepend project: you can read it, adapt it, or use it as a starting point for your own custom rules.
// <TrendMetric Name="# Issues with severity Low" Unit="issues"/>
from issue in Issues
where issue.Severity == Severity.Low
select new { issue, issue.Debt, issue.AnnualInterest, issue.Severity }
//<Desc>
// **Low** severity is for issues with zero or near-zero **Annual
// Interest**. *Low* and *Medium* issues are small elegance improvements —
// the *broken windows* of a code base, per the **Broken Window Theory**
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory: left unfixed,
// developers stop caring for elegant code, costing extra maintenance long
// term. Severity is inferred from the issue *annual interest* and
// thresholds in Project Properties > Issue and Debt.
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