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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 3353422, member: 716"]
I could be a little off on the rough dates. The 700 block of Livingston's been gone for generations (it's mostly two-families anyway), though much of the adjacent blocks of Clarendon was decent into this century. But the 800 block was OK through about 2012, when one of the local investors was able to get around families looking to sell to other families by setting up straw purchases. Sumner is 50/50 now in the 700 block, but there are a couple houses that tipped in recent years; 800 block is the same situation as the 800 block of Livingston. Ackerman started off a little worse (it has more two-families) and has declined since then.

All the neighborhood groups support the 3-unrelated-people definition, and I think you could get some City officials to acknowledge that it represents best practices (I think Syracuse is the largest city in the state to stick by its unusual "family" definition of 5 unrelated people), but it's been all but impossible to get that law through the council. Too many people taking relatively small campaign contributions from area landlords, apparently. This has been an underreported abnormality, though it might not make a huge difference in the current environment (Codes Enforcement is notoriously toothless).
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