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[QUOTE="shandeezy7, post: 2510497, member: 720"]
Can't really disagree with her. Hope city leadership - and SU leadership, for that matter - are paying attention. More apartment units are being built than students are being added to enrollment at SU. One of two things is going to happen here:

1.) These new units won't be filled with students and some projects may fail. 
2.) These new projects create a vacuum from the university neighborhood, leading to abandoned properties and further deterioration of the neighborhood.

The second option should be especially concerning to SU and the city, as neither would like to see a rundown neighborhood right next door to the university (at least any more rundown than it already is thanks to shady absentee landlords who rent dumps to college kids).

If I'm the university, I'm putting pressure on the city to start rigorously enforcing property codes. I feel like for far too long, the city has looked the other way on these issues because these landlords pay their taxes, and they have let tax revenue take precedence over healthy neighborhoods. I think it's also worth exploring some sort of incentive to reconvert a lot of these two family homes back into single family homes. Perhaps offering tax breaks to new owners who will occupy these homes. Just feels like something needs to be done or this neighborhood will be lost for good.
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