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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Housing-
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but we can't raise rents anv-
more. Our margin has eroded
and eroded.
INCREASED city property tax
assessments are most fre-
quently blamed by landlords
for the rising costs of existing
housing. And according to fig-
ures from the city Assessor's
office and City Planning dept.
their complaints are not com-
pletely unwarranted. While
residents in city's the size of
Ann Arbor normally contribute
between 30-40 per cent of a
city's total property tax reve-
nues, residential property tax-
es here currently make up a
whopping 74 per cent of the
city's property tax revenues. In
addition while reassessments
on residential properties are in-
creasing in value -10 per cent
SALE
DOWN JACKETS. VESTS
PILLOWS & COMFORTERS
At Rockbottom Prices
Ripstop Jackets
$34.95
Ripstop Vests
$19.95
SAVINGS on many more styles
yearly, commercial and indus-
trial valuations have remained
steady. City residents are thus
assuming an ever increasing
burden -of property taxes rela-
tive to commerce and industry.
If Ann Arbor residents are
paying more than their equit-
able share of taxes, it is quick-
ly apparent who is getting off
cheaper. Occupying an estimat-
er 50-60 per cent of the city's
total property, the University of
Michigan stands tax exempt.
Students may feel doubly in-
censed with the 'U'. For in ad-
dition to being a major cause
of high city property taxes and
thus high rental prices, the
University has consistently re-
fused to make use of its public
status to garner low interest
loans from the federal govern-
ment and build more student
housing during this shortage.
At the same time, because
city hall cannot right now mus-
cle the University into giving
it anre nn- In- rA-
contend that they instead have
come to depend on spiralling
residential property assess-
ments to finance the costs of
city government in recent
years.
One landlord calls city as-
sessment practices one of the
two things which stemmed the
citys housing boom in the
1960's. "It's a constant fight
with the city assessor on as-
sessed valuation. Ann Arbor is
notorious for too high evalua-
tions on certain buildings."
Adds another landlord. "I
University facts
Among American colleges and
universities, the University was
the first to establish a profes-
sorship in zoology and botany
in 1842.
Each year, some 20,000 vis-
itors come to the University's
Kelsey Museum of Ancient and
Medieval Archaeology.
think the rents in Ann Arbor
are a terrible outrageous rip-
off. Even though the city gives
a lot of lip service to rent con-
trol they really love it (the
present situation) because they
can get $1600 out of an old
rattleheap (for taxes) where in
Flint they'd only get about
$80.'
According to this landlord,
city assessment practices per-
petuate a vicious rent circle.
Assessments, when they are
based not on the real value of
an individual's property but on
the rental income derived from
comparable properties around
the city, tend to force rents up
incrementally with each new
assessment. The higher rents
in turn force some property
values up, which again trigger
another rise in assessments.
The landlord recalled one par-
ticularly irritating examplepof
this principle:
"If you ask them they'll deny
it. But I had one house where
I was charging less than the
Saturday, May 28, 1977
going rent. When my taxes
came out to more than 20 per
cent of my gross rent, I went
and complained, and the as-
sessor told me everyone else
was charging more money and
I should adjust my rents up-
wards."
Next week --a discussion
of some of the proposed solu-
tions to the housing shortage,
University facts
The University employs more
women as engineers and scient-
ists than any other American
university.
The University employed 2399
instructional staff members and
11,722 non-instructional s t A f f
members during 1976-77.
Some 25 miles of corridors
run through and connect various
buildings on the University's
Medical Center.
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