Scared students,code vio
(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on inadequate student housing in Lawrence.)
By JOE BULLARD
Kansan Staff Writer
The area between the 1100 and the 1300 blocks of Tennessee and Ohio Streets are described by city and state building inspectors as containing especially bad housing. KU students living there realize that minimal housing codes are being violated. The students, however, are afraid to file complaints with city and University officials for fear of reprisals by landlords in the form of poor service, higher rents and even eviction.
Robert Haggart, Douglas County building inspector for the State Food and Lodging Board, said at least two landlords who own state licensed property are violating state regulations for housing.
Haggart said the two landlords are Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics, and Glen M. McGonigle, assistant instructor of physics. Haggart said he had inspected and licensed buildings owned by Ling and McGonigle, but that a second inspection had revealed violations of state housing codes.
Ling said he was unwilling to comment on his own operations. McGonigle said he worked with the inspectors and tried to keep his buildings in good repair.
One student, who lives in the area, but didn't want his name used or any pictures taken, said his rent went from $60 a month to about $125 a month after he had paid for half of the materials and had done all of the work on fixing his apartment.
Students said they were unwilling to file written complaints but they were willing to verbalize their problems with the understanding that neither their names nor their addresses would be used.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said he thought that many of the persons who verbalize their complaints and will not sign a written complaint really do not have a valid reason for complaining.
One girl said, "We don't have enough hot water and we have bugs in our apartment. We rented a furnished apartment and we pay $125 a month but we don't have any desks or a dresser."
The students thought otherwise.
Another student said, "When we moved into the house it was dirty. There was trash all over the back porch and we asked the landlord to move it. He removed some of the trash but not all. The ceiling is cracked and broken. The floor in our shower is rusted. The window in the bathroom fell out and it took three weeks for us to get the landlord to fix it. I am afraid to go into the basement because it's in such a mess."
A foreign student said, "The house is old and the rent is too high for this building. If the conditions were good we wouldn't care. We talked to the landlord but he didn't listen to us so we don't try to get anything fixed anymore."
This reporter and two members of the ASC Off-Campus Housing Committee, Halina Pawl, Topeka junior, and Frank Hummer, Topeka senior, accompanied
Photo by Halina Pawl
A student's window to the world - the only one
Robert Haggart, building inspector the State Food and Lodging Board, inspected and licensed a rooming house at 1316 Ohio St. owned by Glen M. McGonigle, assistant
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instructor of physics. Haggart inspected the building a second time and found violations which included this apartment where the window was the only direct exit to the outside. Haggart said the window would be almost impossible to get out of in case of fire.
Five foot entrance to the basement apartments at 1316 Ohio St.
This is the entrance to the basement apartments at 1316 Ohio St., a rooming house owned by Glen M. McGonigle, assistant instructor of physics. The Douglas County building inspector for the State Food and Lodging Board found violations of state housing regulations in this house which included: broken windows, an inescapable fire exit in an apartment and a rug on a flight of stairs which was loose.
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