Rooming Houses

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Another rooming house fire with one fatality. How many of these rooming houses are legal? If illegal, are they tolerated because they are a form of "affordable housing"?
 
There are tons of illegal rooming houses. Just go on cregs list The authorities dont usually bother with them unless there are issues. And they are a form of affordable housing.
 
It is one of the few types of off-campus accommodation affordable
to students. Rooming houses are commonplace in University town.
 
so the solution is to make it illegal thus making more likely to increase homelessness. And are these illegal accommodations just spontaneously exploding or is it more likely that this isn't quite the disaster you are making it out to be?
 
Peegies said:
so the solution is to make it illegal thus making more likely to increase homelessness. And are these illegal accommodations just spontaneously exploding or is it more likely that this isn't quite the disaster you are making it out to be?
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Generally speaking, people that live in rooming houses are a combination of pyromaniacs, and people that don't know what fire is.
 
It's not just fires, but all kinds of violence and illegal activities goes on in rooming houses. Death by fire or by murder (like that poor Chinese girl) is just the worse of the worse.
 
There is a lot of people that can not afford a $1200 to 2000 rent. They don't have another option that get a room for $409 -$500. I know lots of people that make between $12 and $14 an hour. Rooming houses are the only option that they have
 
peter4025 said:
There is a lot of people that can not afford a $1200 to 2000 rent. They don't have another option that get a room for $409 -$500. I know lots of people that make between $12 and $14 an hour. Rooming houses are the only option that they have
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I purchased a legal, compliant multiplex in Oshawa last year. I looked at rooming houses, but they are invariably not legal. One complaint from a pissed off tenant or neighbor and you are out of business. I found out one interesting thing about rooming house tenants. A certain percentage are recently divorced/separated men who can only afford a cheap room due to alimony and child support payments. Happy wife, happy life?
 
I happened to know an Asian mpa who bought a 1.2 mil house in Richmond hill, rent out 5 rooms for $ 400 to 700/mo a room which helps pays her mortgage. I was told and surprised to find out most of the million dollar plus houses in that neighborhood have tenants. She said you can tell which houses have tenants by how many cars parked in their drive ways at night in front of the houses.
 
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I lived in a legal rooming house in Brampton for 13 years, with very few complaints. The Fire Marshall did an annual inspection, and never found anything worth citing my Landlady for.

Like every business, there are responsible owners and there are others who are not-so-responsible.
 
elwoodinontario said:
I lived in a legal rooming house in Brampton for 13 years, with very few complaints. The Fire Marshall did an annual inspection, and never found anything worth citing my Landlady for.

Like every business, there are responsible owners and there are others who are not-so-responsible.
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I have mixed feelings about rooming houses. I prefer owner occupied houses but I also understand that rooming houses serve a social purpose, as long as they are regulated and not overcrowded.
 
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