nce causes concern for students
inspectors from the city of and the State Food and Board picked out a more area of especially bad housing. extends from the 1100 block 800 block of Tennessee and its.
1964 this area has not been intensive enforcement to housing codes nor has it continued and improved face of the buildings. Public needed.
Wilson, director of housing,
that 50 per cent or about
dents live off-campus. Of this
it, Wilson said approximately
cent live in sub-standard
students choose to live in ird housing for several lost important in the minds students is low cost and to campus.
Coan, dean of foreign said most foreign students lie in the resident halls due to diets.
said the foreign student is find an apartment with privileges, but the cost also owed due to limited budgets apartment or roming house lose to campus because few dents own cars.
s do not want their names injunction with this article in prisal by their landlords in of poor service; increased en eviction.
student said, "During the
en the wind blew, we had to
als under our door to keep
out. We asked our landlord
es to fix the door, but he
anything."
gn student said, "The house the rent is too high for this if the conditions were good
we wouldn't care. We have things wrong with our rooms and we have complained to our landlord. He didn't listen to us and we have trouble finding him, so we don't bother to try to get anything fixed."
The student said he didn't turn a complaint into the University for the same reason . . . he didn't think any action would be taken.
William Balfour, dean of student affairs, cites three reasons for students not wishing to file complaints. "First, students may not be aware that housing codes are being broken and therefore feel that nothing can be done to force the landlord to repair the building. In other cases, the resident may be afraid that if the house is fixed up, the landlord will raise the rent, which is legal . . . and third, perhaps students have better
things to do and do not really care."
Many administration officials believe that education of students in regard to housing codes and informing students of what type of housing is available should be one of the goals of anyone working to solve the off-campus housing problem.
Coan believes that educating students about housing codes and trying to get students to file complaints is not the way to solve the problem. Coan said if the student complains and the city puts pressure on the landlord to clean up the building, "the owner would rather close up a house than pay the money to have it fixed. It is an owners' market due to the monopoly that some landlords have. The student is then out of a place to live, and a larger problem is created."
Photos by Halina Pawl
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