Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Housing- (Continued from Page 9i 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. 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