Debunking the "Brothel Law" Myth

[Nanners52674]

This myth just won't die. My CHAPTER ADVISOR believes it's true and has said it to my chapter on more than one occasion!

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Originally Posted by Nanners52674

This myth just won't die. My CHAPTER ADVISOR believes it's true and has said it to my chapter on more than one occasion!

I just had to tell an entire dinner table that this wasn't true.

Some of them still didn't believe me.


Argggg!

[Barbie's_Rush]

Hmmmm. I just came across this interesting situation happening in Evanston, Illinois. Could be there really is such a thing after all?

In Focus: Evanston will enforce 'brothel rule' starting in July, NU administration won't fight it
Northwestern Assistant Dean of Students Betsi Burns advises students to move farther from campus

The Northwestern administration will not ask Evanston to reconsider its "brothel law," a zoning ordinance that will cause hundreds of students to be evicted next year from off-campus housing, a University official told THE DAILY on Monday.


The law, which prevents more than three unrelated people from living together, has not been enforced for years. But on July 1, Evanston will begin enforcing it, which will force landlords to evict some of the hundreds — or thousands — of NU students who live in off-campus houses or apartments with more than two roommates, city officials confirmed to THE DAILY on Monday.

Full article at the source: http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/cit...t-it-1.2446387

[33girl]

The terms used were "rumor" and "commonly referred to as." That's a lot of air quotes.

Unless it says in the law itself "any residence with more than 3 unrelated members is considered a house of prostitution/brothel and therefore illegal," it's not a brothel law. It's a zoning law.

And the dumb landlords just need to start calling each bedroom an apartment to get around this dumb law and be done with it. The End.