Source: http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/category/fire
Timestamp: 2017-10-17 15:24:47
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AHI: United States » Fire
Dangerous, overcrowded, invisible, informal, unenforced: Part 3, unenforced and invisible
8 May, 2013 (09:00) | Allston, Apartments, Boston, Building Codes, Egress, Enforcement, Fire, Informality, Landlords, Overcrowding, Regulation, Rental, Student housing, Zoning |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] Now we know that 87 Linden Street, where Binland Lee died in the April 28 fire, was way over-occupied, because that was in the unstated but manifest interest of both landlord and residents. As I’ve observed elsewhere, in any […]
Dangerous, overcrowded, invisible, informal, unenforced: Part 2, blocked and uninspected for ten years
7 May, 2013 (09:00) | Allston, Apartments, Boston, Building Codes, Egress, Enforcement, Fire, Informality, Landlords, Overcrowding, Regulation, Rental, Student housing, Zoning |
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] Yesterday’s post on the tragic death of Binland Lee, in her attic room in an overcrowded student rental, dealt with the fire’s facts – and if that were all to the story, it would simply be a tragic incident. But everything is connected to everything […]
Dangerous, overcrowded, invisible, informal, unenforced: Part 1, dying in the attic
6 May, 2013 (14:42) | Allston, Apartments, Boston, Building Codes, Egress, Enforcement, Fire, Informality, Landlords, Negligence, Overcrowding, Regulation, Rental, Student housing, Zoning |
By:David A. Smith Tragedy exposes an ecosystem’s weaknesses. A rowdy college party, a lit cigarette, an overcrowded student house, a remote and small-scale landlord, informal subdivisions and excess occupancy, and a building inspection system that gives the illusion of enforcement. Combine them and a young woman is dead. Binland Lee, BU senior … […]