Lane Avenue and North High Street aren’t the only spots seeing real estate development in the University District next year. Come fall 2017, at the intersection of North Grant Avenue and 11th Avenue, a two-story, 24-unit apartment building will open its doors to both students ...
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Weinland Park to undergo further residential expansion
The Weinland Park Neighborhood Plan began in the spring of 2004 through the creation of a neighborhood working committee. The committee’s agenda sought to make the neighborhood a clean and safe place to live. But the reality was that gang violence and racial discrimination in ...
Read More »Emotional support animals permitted in residences that typically ban pets
Sometimes, the best therapy can be something fluffy and cute, and some students at Ohio State have taken steps to register their pets as emotional support animals. According to the National Service Animal Registry, qualifying disabilities to have an emotional support animal, or an ESA, ...
Read More »Some students seek legal options for off-campus housing issues
Mitch Mundy and his roommates were sitting at their home on Chittenden Avenue when the house went dark. They initially thought a fuse had blown, so one of them went down to the basement to fix the problem. When that didn’t work, they called their ...
Read More »In wake of complaints, Ohio State-area landlords aim to work with tenants
As landlords face complaints of dead rodents in walls and sewage backups at the properties they rent out in the off-campus area, some said they’re working to improve on the service they provide. For Michael Groeniger, property manager at G.A.S. Properties, the secret lies in ...
Read More »Ohio State housing standards program making headway
In an effort to prioritize student safety, an Ohio State program is inspecting about a dozen off-campus homes a day. The OSU Office of Student Life’s Off-Campus Housing Excellence Program conducts home visits, where representatives from Neighborhood Services and Collaboration and the Columbus Division of ...
Read More »43 complaints filed about Ohio State off-campus landlord NorthSteppe Realty since January 2013
Many Ohio State students have come to expect some amount of decay when they move into an off-campus house, so when Jared Malvic and his friends moved into a house on 12th Avenue last year, they weren’t surprised to find it needed some maintenance. But ...
Read More »1K quality checks set for Ohio State off-campus properties in 2014
The Off-Campus Housing Excellence Program at Ohio State has kicked off its home visits, where a representative from Neighborhood Services and Collaboration and the Columbus Division of Fire visit students’ homes to make sure the properties are up to par. This includes assessing the “safety, ...
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