That sucks too. It got worse as a place to raise a family, or a place for children to grow up. Main Street is a suicide strip. Some days there are as many as 4 or 5 accidents on the corner of Main and College Ave. Student housing is like a cancer that has taken most of the older homes in Ephraim and is now trying to eat up the center of the blocks with high density apartments.
Developers buy up the older homes as the elderly folks die off, or move to rest homes.
They put in 10 to 3o students in each home at 100.00 to 150.00 dollars per month each. These homes used to be starter homes for young married couples, and they were affordable. Also any other place that can be remodeled and brought to code. Well, I say it all sucks. The College and or the State, own around 150 acres of land inside the city limits in the north part of town.