4
Wednesday, April 14, 1971
University Daily Kansas.
KANSAN comment
'Pooh Corner'—1000 Ohio
A Look at Off-Campus Housing
Editorial Comment by Dick Larimore and Bob Hartzler
City ordinances require that "porches and porch railings shall be firm and in good condition."
This page is devoted to a house at 1000 Ohio St. which has been named "Pooh Corner" by the students who live there. Pooh's portrait graces its front door.
The front and back porches analralle is in dispair and unsafe, some wiring is totally inadequate and a gas heater used last winter to heat water pipes in the basement is hazardous.
The tenants of "Pooh Corner" said that because their landlord paid little heed to their complaints, they had contacted the City Building Inspector's office. Efforts are under way to persuade the landlord to protect the dangerous situations present at the house.
"Poch Corner" is not the best off-campus housing available, nor is it the worst. We think it is typical of much of the university population at the University and rented students.
picture is a good-sized space which leads directly into the closet of the basement apartment. Tenants said that the apartment was ignited, the apartment was flooded and they complained to the building inspector who made the landlord stop using the gas heater and use an electric gas heater is still hooked up, however.
In the background of the heater
"Pooh Corner" is a profitable operation. Known expenses for March were $13.98 in money, about $20 for food and supplies (using 179 figures) $30.66 for tax. According to tenants, the house rented for $490. Subtracting the known expenses from the income leaves a net profit of $49 for the four living units in the house.
Tenants at "Pooh Corner" are dissatisfied. They said they hardly ever saw the landlord and that he really didn't care how bad the condition of the house became. They want changes made.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
An All-American college newspaper
Published at the University of Kansas daily during the academic year except during semester periods. Mail subscription rates: $4 a semester. $10 a year. University of Kansas. All services and employment offered to all students without goods, services and employment expressed to all students are not necessarily those of the University of Kansas of the State Department.
NEWS STAFF
News Adviser . . . Del Brinkman
Editor
Substandard wiring tucked behind molding.
Galen Bland
Unsafe gas heater used to warm basement water pipes.