Few OC Housing Problems Seen

On The Inside SB P candidate platforms . pages 4 & 5 Tips for O-C students page 3 THEserving the notre dameOBSERVER - st. mary's community Vol. IX, No. 80 W ednesday, F ebruary 26, 1975 Few O-C housing problems seen Booklet prepared by Off-Campus Commission, Housing Office by Maureen Flynn houses, although he admitted there will be Rent “about same” Staff Reporter .varying degrees of quality. “The later you > wait, the less quality you’ll get,” he All of the housing landlords contacted Off-Campus Commissioner Stan Cardenas stressed, “but we have found very few Notre stated that rent has not increased at all predicted today that students moving off- Dame students living in what we would since last year or that rent was “about the campus next year will have no major consider sub standard housing.” sa m e .” problems locating housing. Cardenas noted Apartments may be a little harder to Abshire Realties reported that all of its that both the Off-Campus Housing Office obtain, Cardneas noted. Campus View, for student apartments have been rented at a and Off-campus commission have complied example, reportedly has only a limited cost of $130 per m onth. Both nine-month and information to help students find suitable number of rooms available. twelve-month leases were offered. housing and to acquaint them with the Turtle Creek Apartments still have a few difficulties and responsibilities involved in Nine-month leases popular vacancies, but expect to have a waiting list off-campus living. by spring. A variety of apartments of “The administration has taken a better One decidedly bright side of the housing varying prices are available, with the attitude towards off-campus housing,” said situation,however, is the general ac average cost per tenant being $125 plus Cardenas, citing the off-campus housing ceptance of the nine-month lease. electricity. Six-month andnine-monthleases guide as an example of a “new awareness.” Most landlords will allow students to rent an are available, but tenants renting apart In addition to its booklet, the housing apartment only for the school year, instead ments for less than the full year forfeit half office has assembled a list of houses and of insisting on a twelve-month lease as in of their $100 deposit. apartments available for rent to graduate NOTRE DAME student picks up list of years past. Notre Dame Apartments still have a and undergraduate students. Each of the 86 available off-campus housing. The list has A preliminary survey of the major house number of openings, but these are expected apartments and 68 houses on the list has been prepared by the Off-Campus Housing and apartment owners listed by the Off- to fill up quickly. Nine-month leases are been inspected and evaluated by personnel Office to aid students in searching for ac campus Housing Office revealed how available a t an av erag e cost of $60-$75 per from the O-C Housing office and received a commodations. (photo by Paul Joyce) quickly the vacancies seem to be filling, and student per month plus electricity. Notre rating of fair, good, excellent, or superior. questionnaire issued at January the general terms of the leases. Dame apartments are not recommended by “The inspection of houses and apart registration. The Joseph Gatto firm, which owns five the! housing guide because of some of ments gives students the chance at the best “I would like to emphasize a few points,” houses all rated “excellent” by the housing the minor clauses in the lease. picks,” stated Cardneas, but pointed out one stated Cardenas. “First of all the lease inspectors, has rented all its facilities for The manager of Campus View could not negative aspect of the housing list. “One contained in the packet is a model. It does next year. All the leases are for nine- be reached for information concerning those thing inherently bad is that in one year’s not have an attached schedule of features to months, and the average tenant pays $60 per apartments, but nine-month leases are time we can’t get to all the student houses, check for and evaluate in looking month, no utilities. available. so the list is necessarily limited.” for housing. The full lease can be obtained Ray Milliken, owner of 11 houses and an With the exception of Turtle Creek Just because a house or apartment is not from Fr. Tallarida in the Housing Office.” equal number of apartments, reported that apartments, all the landlords contacted on the housing office’s list, Cardenas ex “If a landlord has a different lease than he has rented 60 per cent of his properties mentioned some increase in rent over last plained, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad ours,” he added, “the student should take it and expects to have most of the vacancies year. Further information on available housing. “There are good houses and good to Fr. Tallarida or to Joe Cassini from Legal filled by the second week of March. The housing can be obtained by contacting the landlords who aren’t on the list,” he said. Aid.” average tenant pays betw een $65 and $80 per Off-Campus Housing office in Student “If a student has questions about a certain In addition, Cardenas noted, figures month, depending on the condition of the Affairs or calling Stan Cardenas at the landlord, for instance, he should ask Fr. contained in the questionnaire results are house and its distance from campus. The Student Government office or 283-1149. Tallardia, director of Off-campus housing, subject to change. “The utility figure has leases are for nine months, and the facilities Cardenas was optimistic about the Cardenas said. “He has a pretty good idea already increased 15 per cent. A 10 per cent are generally rated “good’ or “excellent.” housing situation for next year, citing in which landlords are good and which aren’t increase in the food bill can be expected by Jack Robinson, owner of three apart creased cooperation with the neighborhood and he’d be happy to be of help.” the end of the fall semester.” ments and four houses, reported that his groups and the South Bend crime unit as He also emphasized that the figures property is not yet reserved for student use, examples of progress made this year. Information packets ready mentioned in the questionnaire results do but interested students should contact him “I’m generally happy with the whole off- not include the cost of laundry and gasoline. immediately . Robinson will offer nine- campus commission,” stated Cardenas. Cardenas also noted that his own off- “We’ve found that money is generally month leases for property generally rated “They’re really a group of hard workers. campus commission has assembled an saved in houses, not apartments,” Cardenas “good” at an average cost of $50 per student Steve Shankel and Jim Wersching have information packet for students moving to observed. “It’s very difficult to save in the per m onth. worked especially hard on developing the communities outside the University. The Notre Dame Apartments and Campus View, Two of the sixhouses owned by Joseph food co-op.” packets, which can be obtanined from the for example.” Shula have already been rented, but nine- Cardenas stated that further information hall presidents, contain the housing guide, a As far as housing for next year is con month leases are available for the other four on the food co-op will be issued in mid ‘April model lease, city map, crime prevention cerned, Cardenas coes not anticipate that and for one apartment. The average cost “unless the new SBP decides to drop the brochure, and results of the O-C students will have any difficulty finding per student is $40 per month plus utilities. idea.” Obtained bid for sixth term Daley wins big in D CHICAGO (UPI) - Mayor I can’t run for mayor.” vention. Chicagoans’ memory that Daley and a push to the political Richard J. Daley, the 72-year-old Daley, beset by years, a stroke Singer was the only one given a appeared to be in any sort of aspirations of his sons. power broker who has run Chicago last summer, and charges of chance to beat the old master. But trouble. The stroke which forced him into for 20 years, overwhelmed three scandal, easily beat back the first Daley was running ahead of him by Some of his closest associates surgery last May led to doubts challengers Tuesday night in primary challenge to the reign of roughly two to one. have been involved in 15 major whether he would even go for one winning a Democratic mayoral the man called boss of Chicago With 2,622 of 3,146 precincts scandals. Several have been last hurrah. And, after Daley primary which was tantamount to since he took office in 1955. counted, Daley led Singer with convicted. So have some 50 declared himself in one more time, four more years in City Hall. As expected, Daley’s closest 390,479 votes to 193,164. Chicago policement charged with Singer forces said a large voter The legendary Daley clout was contender was William S. Singer, Trailing were Richard H. shakedowns. The mayor himself turnout would mean the upstart such that the only serious 34, a reformist alderman from a Newhouse Jr., a state senator was accused of using his power to would have a chance. Repubican candidate could not Gold Coast ward who gained bidding to become the first black ive lucrative insurance business even win reelection to the City national attention in 1972 when he mayor of this increasingly black Council.

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