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Originally Posted by mhays
What are you basing that on? Are there examples of dorm-like units in your area?
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There were until recently. This thing was just torn down:
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New SROs were disallowed mostly because of the same BS reasons that come up today...mostly that people were offended by the idea, and were forgetting what it's like to be just starting out. It was also classism and probably a strong dose of racism.
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It's not BS. I bought a house in 2013 that had been vacant for several years, back when there were multiple vacant houses on every block. This one happened to be between two multifamilies (the missing middle! I'm so trendy! Click that like button!), one of which was and still is a drug halfway house. People come and go from the place but it is consistently the worst-behaved building in the area, sometimes with multiple police runs per week.
I've had a lot of stuff thrown on the roof and over the fence, had a guy jump the fence and demand to be let in, and had a woman who took everything in her apartment out onto the front porch and back in every day one day flip out and start throwing her stuff on my front porch. Last year I had someone attempt to break into my basement through a glass block window. One guy would always ask to borrow my phone to call the Queen of England. Right now we have two abandoned vehicles parked in front, one with a car cover. The guy told me he came outside and somebody had put that cover on his car. So the guy is so high he doesn't remember buying and putting a cover on his car. Plus, he drives a motor vehicle while that high.
People are constantly coming and going because they're buying and selling drugs. People get the address wrong and they come to my door or in a few cases have loitered on my porch for lengthy periods of time. There are arguments at 4-5-6am on weeknights.
None of these people have jobs. These are the sort of people who occupied the SRO's of old and who occupy government-subsidized Section 8 and halfway houses. They do the bare minimum to survive. They're always going to live in the cheapest place available.