[Cross wrote]:
I debated a while on whether to say anything about this. Perhaps it's the voice of a fringe that everyone understood as just that so that no response was required. While only at the distant periphery of events at that time, I think it needs to be recalled that three people died in a fire back then. And the result was the safety sweeps to try to prevent another disaster. Anyone who thinks that there was anything else going on in conducting the safety sweeps other than concern for the safety of the students is sadly mistaken.
[Johnson responds]:
The three students who died in the fire were not victims of overoccupancy, but the
sweeps mainly pursued violation of occupancy limits.
Go to your own neighborhood newspaper, "Southeast Angle", page 4, Dec03, for
an article titled, "Renters left out in the cold?", which in paragraph 5 reports: "JoAnn Velde, city housing inspections director, said most violations cited in the
sweeps so far were for occupancy limits."
The house fire was in September 2003.
Try again, Mr. Cross. The efforts to keep students out of your semi-gated Prospect
Park enclave have gone on too long. Those efforts bring back memories of housing
discrimination as it was practiced in the 1950s and 1960s.
Bob Johnson Cedar-Riverside West Bank W2/P10
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