University Daily Kansan, September 5, 1980
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Rent jump upsets Stouffer Place, poll indicates
By JENNIFER LISTON
Staff Reporter
Most residents of Stouffer Place Apartments are unhappy because of rent increases and the need for minor changes. A survey taken earlier this summer,
The survey, conducted by the Stouffer Neighborhood Association, found that residents thought that needed repairs, such as to bathroom flooring, and on painting and cracked plaster, had not been done.
They also were unhappy with rents, which were recently raised from $110 to $115 a month for furnished one-bedroom units. Utilities are not included in the rent.
RESIDENTS RANKED air conditioning as the most important need for the complex, although Jerry Skillett, chairman of the neighborhood association, said the survey was taken during this summer's heat wave.
some residents installed room air conditioners, but most apartments are not.
The Stouffre association was organized in the summer of 1978 when
After the rent concerns, ranked second, residents said they wanted additional lighting near the new sidewalks.
residents asked the KU office of housing for new sidewalks. Three new sidewalks have been installed in the complex.
percent would like to rent unfurnished apartments. Residents ranked that 10th on the survey.
Residents in the one- and two-bedroom apartments were extra bedridden, with their fourth bedroom.
The complex has no storage space. Residents ranked that fifth on the list, and many of the residents have lived in other locations. They have their own furniture, about 25
SIXTH ON THE LIST of concerns was a day care center for residents' children. There are about one hundred children in the complex.
Some residents have organized a cooperative day care center run by different mothers in the complex.
Seventh on the list of priorities was a recreation building for the apartments. She should be because of the impending enrollment situation area might help attract residents.
The residents' eighth concern was
Residents last year requested and received a chain-link fence between 19th Street and a play area in the complex, Skilllett said.
more playground equipment. There are three play areas in the complex.
OTHER CONCERNS on the list in-
telligence utilities, a storm shelter
and better lighting.
About half of the residents said they thought the laundry facilities in the basement of Building 1 were inadequate. Residents said the apartments needed to be kept cleaner and cooler.
Also among residents' concerns was
the size of refrigerators in buildings 1,2 and 3. When kitchens in the complex were remodeled several years ago, full-size refrigerators were installed in most apartments, but 37 units still have the old small refrigerators. Only about a third of these appliances in those apartments said small refrigerators were adequate.
Some residents of Building 14 complained last year about roof repairs, but theirs was most of the residents were satisfied with overall maintenance of the buildings.
Skillett said the association included a representative from each building.
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