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Housing code violation data from the Columbus Building and Zoning Services was collected for area codes 43201 and 43202 \u2014 heavily composed of the University District and other student housing \u2014 and is broken down by record type, record category and record subtype, with each more detailed than the last. <\/span><\/p>\n

Housing in the University District is 78% renter-owned, according to data from the 2022 ESRI Business Analyst<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the past decade, area code 43201 saw 75% of the total violations compared to 43202 despite only being 22% larger by area with 50% more housing units, according to the 2020 census.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrezze said violations are labeled properly under each category and by separating the data by these classifications, it can be analyzed to find which infractions are the most common each year. <\/span><\/p>\n
Not all complaints result in violations. Cockroaches and other pests were a common complaint but comprised only five of the nearly 900 total violations in the past decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Another record category, \u201cweeds and solid waste,\u201d is more to blame for an initial jump in violations that occurred between 2020 and 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Celebrezze said code violation duties were transferred from the Department of Development to Building and Zoning Services in 2021. The change in philosophy followed.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThe mayor decided that it made more sense to have that regulatory function be with Building and Zoning, since we’re already a regulatory operation, whereas the Department [of] Development is more into trying to create jobs and businesses and that type of thing,\u201d Celebrezze said.<\/span><\/p>\n
Soon after the switch, Building and Zoning started Monday trash sweeps in the University District after home football games, Celebrezze said. Enforcement officers would walk down streets and alleys looking for cans, cups and other excessive amounts of garbage in yards and would return Tuesday with orders to clean up within 48 hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, they tended to be the same addresses, but eventually over time, those landlords worked with their tenants. Most of them, they start sending their own staff out to clean things up on Monday and charge their tenants,\u201d Celebrezze said. \u201cThe tenants learned they’re either gonna get charged for it, or they were going to have to clean by Sunday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Celebrezze said when the program started, they initially were writing up 80 to 100 citations each sweep, but through working with property owners and other stakeholders at community roundtables and other educational opportunities, only about a dozen are written up per sweep, which also occur less frequently.<\/span><\/p>\n
In 2021, weeds and solid waste made up 92 of the total 136 violations, and that number fell to 26 in 2023. Celebrezze said the initial citations may have been warnings instead of full violations, but he couldn\u2019t say for certain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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The \u201cgeneral\u201d category saw the largest jump in violations between 2022 and 2023. \u201cWeeds and solid waste\u201d comprised over half the total violations in 2021 when the trash sweeps started and have since decreased.<\/span><\/p>\n
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To further help with the trash issue off campus, the University District Organization \u2014 a community organization dedicated to improving life in the neighborhoods of the University District \u2014 has started multiple programs. <\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span>Nora Gerber, executive director of the UDO, said trash is a unique problem to tackle because there\u2019s so much of it. She said one idea that came to life was the Trash to Treasure project, which commissions artists to turn nearby dumpsters into their canvases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThis does two things for us that we\u2019ve seen. One, it reduces the vandalism on dumpsters,\u201d Gerber said. \u201cUsually, it subconsciously encourages people to actually put their trash inside of the dumpster instead of around it so that because they see something beautiful, and they <\/span>respect it a little bit more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
The Can Fairy project is another UDO initiative. Gerber said it was introduced because of the amount of garbage found by code enforcement\u2019s trash sweeps and because other people, such as can collectors and those without houses, were often on porches and lawns cleaning the mess themselves, leading to safety concerns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re going to be doing the collection and who’s doing it, so that’s safer,\u201d Gerber said. \u201cBut then, too, instead of putting it on the lawn, you fill the box, you put it in the box, not your lawn. It reduces the litter, it changes the habit, and then when we collect those bags every Monday morning, we take them to a recycling drop-off location and they get diverted from the landfill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Sarah Swasey, a fourth-year in political science, complained about trash violations at her off-campus house on Indianola Avenue, along with a list of other poor housing conditions. She said a dumpster behind her house often overflows, leaving her and her roommates to take the blame.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThat dumpster is used by pretty much half the street, and we live around fraternities and all that,\u201d Swasey said. \u201cSo, when they throw away their thousands of cans from parties, it overflows our dumpster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
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The University District Organization\u2019s Trash to Treasure project allows artists to use dumpsters as their canvases.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Swasey said they were fined once by the city, which was handled by her real estate company, Hometeam Properties, but they have received numerous other warnings and citations threatening further fines and even jail time. <\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cOver the summer someone threw away their couch, but they just left their couch in front of the dumpster, and then we got a notice for it, and it’s not our couch,\u201d Swasey said.<\/span><\/p>\n
The largest jump in code violations happened in 2023, as the total tripled from an already increased amount in 2022. Last year\u2019s data saw a total of just under 400 violations in the first nine months, which is 12 times larger than the yearly average from 2013-2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The jump occurred mostly in the \u201cgeneral\u201d record category, going from 39 incidents in 2022 to 167. This category includes a wide variety of small structural or common infractions.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\u201cOver the summer someone threw away their couch, but they just left their couch in front of the dumpster, and then we got a notice for it, and it’s not our couch.<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014 Sarah Swasey<\/span>, University District resident<\/h3>\n
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University Area Commission chair Doreen Uhas-Sauer said one of the reasons for the large jump in recent violations was the COVID-19 pandemic. She said it caused students \u2014 a large portion of the off-campus population \u2014 to leave the University District. The UAC is a volunteer, democratically-elected commission in Columbus that advises on zoning, planning and other neighborhood civic matters, according to its website<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cWe did not necessarily see students in the neighborhood because they were working remotely at home. They literally abandoned the area,\u201d Uhas-Sauer said. \u201cIt was like living in a ghost town.<\/span><\/p>\n
So, there’s a fluctuation there where people would not have been calling [violations] in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Celebrezze agreed with this, saying the post-pandemic transition caused a lot of changes for code enforcement through Building and Zoning Services. This included having code enforcement officers out on the job five days a week as opposed to half that during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The jump in violations for 2023 can also be attributed to staffing, according to Celebrezze, as he said this was the first time in many years that code enforcement was up to full staffing. In addition, he said the off-campus area has the most code officers, and what can sometimes be four or five personnel has since jumped to 10 or 11.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cWe ended up adding to that. We’ve got two teams called PACE \u2014 Proactive Code Enforcement \u2014 and these are folks that have been doing code enforcement for many years, and they’re kind of like our specialists. We send them into areas, so we inundated the area,\u201d Celebrezze said. \u201cThat would account for a lot of the big jumps in the numbers in \u201823.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Uhas-Sauer said students can also be at fault for causing violations, meaning they should protect themselves by understanding what hazards they can cause and how it impacts their safety.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cStudents violate the code themselves. They bag a fire alarm or they block an exit with a bed,\u201d Uhas-Sauer said. \u201cJust the kinds of things you may not realize are contributing to your own lack of safety. Upholstered furniture on porches \u2014 we’ve had severe fires in the university area because of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Trash is another violation often caused by students, and ensuring smoke detectors are functioning with charged batteries is another potentially life-saving responsibility of renters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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\u201cStudents violate the code themselves. They bag a fire alarm or they block an exit with a bed. Just the kinds of things you may not realize are contributing to your own lack of safety. Upholstered furniture on porches \u2014 we’ve had severe fires in the university area because of that<\/strong>.<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014 Doreen Uhas-Sauer<\/span>, University Area Commission Chair<\/h3>\n
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In addition, Gerber said the quick turnaround of students in off-campus housing can discourage both parties from maintaining their properties. She said anyone indicating a lack of care and respect incentivizes others to do the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe you would throw a party at your parent\u2019s house, but you would definitely clean up after because your mom, dad, parents, grandparents \u2014 whoever\u00a0 \u2014 would expect you to respect the house,\u201d Gerber said. \u201cI think if you have a landlord that doesn’t care about the property, it doesn’t make you want to care about the property, which is sad in a way because a lot of these homes [that] are built in the early 1900s are really cool and are really gorgeous inside.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Gerber said she believes the landlords who don\u2019t care about a property are likely the ones who see the most violations. Landlords who do care and show that through their work are more likely to see that attitude reflected by tenants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The Lantern reached out to Swasey’s landlord, Hometeam, who did not return requests for comment. The Columbus Apartment Association also did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThere are ways in which you can intrinsically show that you care about your apartment and your neighborhood,\u201d Gerber said. \u201cWe hope that that has a ripple effect for people that are visiting, that they want to throw their trash away properly, or when they do come and live here, that they have a sense of place and community in that they really love it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Swasey said she feels having students in the University District rent for only a year or two can cause a lack or delay of care from landlords with their properties, and she feels she has been impacted by this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cI think there [are] a lot of times where they’re expecting that the students living in these houses are going to be immature and breaking stuff, and I do know people like that that just don’t take care of their house,\u201d Swasey said. \u201cIt’s hard because when you\u2019re genuinely having an issue, they might just assume that you’re just a college kid that isn’t taking care of things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
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Moving out and moving on<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Celebrezze said there are many outside factors causing the number of violations to present as rising, yet he believes the actual total number of infractions is far more consistent. <\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s more of the students knowing what their rights are and what they’re supposed to be living in. I mean, I went to Ohio State, and there’s always been violations of these. Looking back on my time there and knowing the code violations, there’s always interior and exterior stuff going on,\u201d Celebrezze said.<\/span><\/p>\n
Violations themselves can be expensive and bring unseen costs, and Brady said their infestation forced them to throw away all their food after cockroaches found their way into the fridge. Guirguis said cooking meals was also out of the question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just inconvenient because we didn’t want to touch anything in the fridge, and obviously we didn’t want to cook in our kitchen, so we’d have to order food every day for every single meal,\u201d Guirguis said. \u201cSo, it’s just very expensive.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
University Village, Guirguis\u2019 landlord, said the safety of their residents is their top priority, and rectifying maintenance requests is of utmost importance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cOur maintenance team strives to give each of our residents the best living experience possible at University Village,\u201d Jessup said in an email. \u201cIn addition to our maintenance team, we have partnerships with several third-party vendors with an array of expertise who help us maintain our facilities for our residents. We also work closely with university housing and city inspectors to make sure we adhere to all housing standards for students who are living in our University Village properties.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Graffiti made up 51 of the almost 900 housing violations from 2013 to 2023 and is a common complaint to the city, especially if it contains offensive language or imagery.<\/span><\/p>\n
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University District housing is already expensive, often having rent prices a couple of hundred dollars over the Ohio average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau<\/a><\/span>,<\/span> and Uhas-Sauer said students may have to settle with worse housing options to save on a few bucks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cWith the landlords, I should expect better because they’re making the profit, and if they’re not keeping up their property, they’re doing it on the backs of students,\u201d Uhas-Sauer said. \u201cAffordable housing for students is so lacking, but that doesn’t mean you have to live in the basement of somebody’s house. I mean, I lived in garage apartments, types of things, too. It really is the responsibility of the landlords legally to have safe housing, keeping it affordable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Uhas-Sauer said new developments coming into the area are also too expensive and luxurious for the demand, leaving many students with fewer options to choose from.<\/span><\/p>\n
If students are having issues with their housing, Frank Kremer, the chief counsel of the civil team at Student Legal Services \u2014 a third-party nonprofit entity contracted by Ohio State \u2014 said his team can help students deal with property and landlord troubles.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\u201cWith the landlords, I should expect better because they’re making the profit, and if they’re not keeping up their property, they’re doing it on the backs of students. Affordable housing for students is so lacking, but that doesn’t mean you have to live in the basement of somebody’s house.\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u00a0<\/span>One service it offers is lease reviews, which Kremer said is always a good idea to use before signing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cBefore you sign your lease, you can bring it to us,\u201d Kremer said. \u201cWe will sit down, go through it with the student and make sure they understand fully what they’re signing and what their rights are, what the landlord\u2019s obligations are, etc.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Student Legal Services is also able to help students with problems involving unaddressed repairs or violations in their housing, and Kremer recommends students document these issues with photos, videos and written evidence if they persist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
To report housing code violations to the city, submit a request through the 311 Customer Service Center or call 614-645-3111.<\/span><\/p>\n
Celebrezze said finding and fixing more violations can be a good thing since it helps them keep Columbus at a safer and higher standard.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201c<\/em>I guarantee you, I could find a code violation at every single property of the city of Columbus, including my own, but that’s not what we’re looking for. It’s not what our goal is,\u201d Celebrezze said. \u201cOur goal is to find the worst in areas where people complain about it, and then go out there and try to help that property owner bring that property up so that it\u2019s not a drag on the neighborhood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] \u201cI guarantee you, I could find a code violation at every single property of the city of Columbus<\/span>, including my own, but that’s not what we’re looking for. It’s not what our goal is,\u201d Celebrezze said. \u201cOur goal is to find the worst in areas where people complain about it, and then go out there and try to help that property owner bring that property up so that it\u2019s not a drag on the neighborhood.\u201d <\/pee>[\/et_pb_code][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider color=”#9e0000″ divider_style=”dashed” divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”6px” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”58%” module_alignment=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
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