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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1973)
Tenants’ requests refused By KATHLEEN GLANVILLK Of the Emerald The Oregon Appeals Court has refused a request by the Amazon Co-operating Tenants Union (ACT) to review a July decision of the State Board of Education to authorize a rental increase for the Amazon Housing Project. ACT presented the formal request to the Appeals Court in September, contending that the State Board’s decision to raise rents violated decision-making rules and was an improper handling of a contested case. ACT asserted that contested decisions by the Board require procedures which were not followed. ACT representatives appeared at hearing before the State Board July 23 in an attempt to have a University-approved rent hike overturned. After their appeal failed at the State Board. ACT presented a formal request to the Appeals Court in September. Amazon tenants have two choices; they can either accept the Appeals Court decision, which would entail gmng to Circuit Court and filing a suit for declaratory judgement, or they can take the Appeals Court decision to the Oregon Supreme Court. The ACT Steering Com mittee will be meeting in the near future to decide upon a course of action. According to a source near the case, ACT will probably opt for an appeal to the Supreme Court in an attempt to win a Group report criticizes rent referral agencies In-an attempt to get the Board of County Commissioners to pasE an ordinance regulating rent referral agencies, Ellen Rosenblum-Nelson, presented the results of an Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) investigation on the matter at the board’s Wed nesday meeting The board took no action at the meeting The OSPIRG report says the agencies exploit their customers because they charge a fee of $10 or $20 for a prospective renter to look at a list of rentals which is the same as the listings in the newspapers. “These agencies cause the prospective tenant to lose time and money.” said Rosenblum-Nelson. who is a University law student and OSPIRG intern. There are three such rental agencies in operation in Oregon the report said, called Home Locaters, Home Hunters, and Rental Housing Directory, and one other agency planning to reopen Rosenblum-Nelson said, “These agencies are preying on the desperation of persons who will grab at any straw in the hope of securing hard-to-find housing.” The agencies usually follow a set pattern in doing business ac cording to OSPIRG. First, the agency advertises specific houses for rent, usually the cream of the crop. However, by the time a prospective renter pays his $10 to $20 to look at the listings, the ad vertised house is long gone. The agencies many times know this is the case but lead the customer into thinking that the bouse is still available. After the money is paid, the customer is informed that he is too late to rent the advertised house and, consequently, he settles for a far less desirable rental. Rosenblum-Nelson proposed to the board that an ordinance be passed which would prohibit the agencies from charging a fee until a service (of finding a suitable house) is performed—much like em ployment agencies and real estate brokers Board members questioned her as to whether present laws don’t already cover this problem. She pointed out that since the rental referral agencies are a new thing—they’ve sprung up within the past two years—there aren’t any specific laws regulating them. Moreover, according to Rosenblum-Nelson, the broader laws that deal with misrepresentation and fraud are extremely difficult to apply in this case. IOBHI-... . J 1 ■ bijou dream pregents THE SCARLET EMPRESS starring Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great Directed by Josef von Sternberg "She takes her lovers where she finds them in her ascent to the Russian throne." 8 PM Friday Nov. 30 180 PLC $1.00 or Bijou Ticket judicial review of the State Board hearing ACT is representing the Amazon tenants in their second rent battle with the University. In the summer of 1972. ACT suc cessfully fought a proposal for a S2 50-a-month increase. The State Board of Education turned down ■hat increase after ACT representatives made a detailed presentation, arguing that the University failed to show con clusively the need far an in crease. On March 27. of this year, the board changed the policy on setting married student housing rental rates. The authority for final approval was delegated to the chancellor however the new policies required that public hearings be held on the campuses on proposed increases. 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