All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
— Benito Mussolini
Private property?? It’s a quaint sort of of eighteenth century concept. We’re too sophisticated for such stuff now.
This is an interesting case. Housing around a local university...locals upset over maturity of “kids” renting the houses or apartments...loud noise likely a product...so the city passes a law that limits neighborhoods around a university to thirty-percent rented out.
Legally, it’d be a first-come-first-serve situation, and likely fail a court challenge....although taking six months to reach that point.
When I lived in Tucson...they had big problems in the center part of town where the university was located and people were renting out houses in this fashion. At some point, some kids got smart...getting a couple thousand from the parents, and buying the house. They graduated from college, and continued to rent the house out year after year.
“...no more than 30 percent of homeowners per block to rent their property in the college community.”
the sales of Homes to College Students... is bound to Skyrocket....
If you choose to buy a home near a dump, it is going to release gasses near you. If you choose to live by a dairy farm, the afternoon smell will have you reeling. If you choose to live next to a river, sometimes it overflows its banks and you get submerged. If you choose to live near a university, there are going to be thousands of partying kids. Maybe complainers should choose to live somewhere else.
Oh, yes. If you choose to live in a liberal dominated city, you will experience high taxes, gangs, illegal alien drivers/voters, and high crime rate. Just sayin’.
Well, it IS Minnysooota! But you know, it’s getting harder to find the king of the abjectly stupid states. One day you think its New Jersey, then Maryland does something to take away the “title.” But there’s always Minnysooota (as their former governor Jesse Ventura would say). I guess it just stays too cold too long there every year. One thing is certain, being next door to Wisconsin hasn’t helped in any positive way. Sure got to hand it to Wisconsin, being bordered by Illinois AND Minnysooota, they still make their own way.
What if they let property owners decide what to do with their property?
What if people who lived there and didn't like it could move elsewhere?
What if they made it mandatory that you had to buy goods and services that had been approved and taxed by them, regardless that their involvement raised the price of the goods and services to a point that you could no longer afford them.
They have done just that in the Florida Keys.
If you rent a home it has to be for a certain amount of time, not a night or two.
“The city responded to concerns over neighborhoods with single-family homes being converted to rental properties catering to college students, which can lead to complaints over parking, noisy parties and other issues.”
The issues complained about by the we-know-what’s-best-for-your-private-property city officials are issues for public safety officials and one’s they can easily deal with. None of them require what amounts to a taking of private property.
It would seem that the same city officials complaining about the % of single family houses being rented, have, through restrictive zoning practices, discouraged more multi-unit housing, of the kind that would probably better serve the students.
Of course, on the other side, they are likely dealing also with the issue that they get no property tax revenue from the colleges (I suspect).
Frankly I’m for changing the meaning of “tax exempt/non-profit”; that it should be changed to mean any organization that does not charge any fees for it’s services (it exists on donations or membership dues alone). The educational industrial complex has grown arrogant, fat, lazy, extravagant, politically biased and expensive on its “tax exempt” privileges.
This not just homes we are talking it is apartments too. You get in some people who have no regard for their neighbors and they make it tough to live there. The owner of the building in my case had notices given to several people giving them 3 days to change or be evicted. Peace and quiet was the result.