University of Virginia Library

Committee To Survey
Off Grounds Housing

A survey aiming at collecting
information concerning off-Grounds
housing will be taken this week, it was
announced yesterday.

The Tenants' Association Committee
of the Union of University Students plans
to distribute questionnaires at the
entrances to Cabell Hall, Thornton Hall,
and Newcomb Hall for the remainder of
this academic week. Boxes and tabled for
distribution will be set up at other
locations around the University.

The survey is designed to gather information
on specific off-Grounds rooms and apartments
for use in the spring for students seeking
housing for the coming year. The UUS intends
to make the information collected in the survey
available to all students to help them know
more about a particular apartment or landlord
before he signs the lease.

The Tenants' Association Committee will
supply sample leases for comparison and advice
on renting and will try to help with
tenant-landlord relations.

The long-range goal of the Committee is the
formation of a Tenants' Association in
Charlottesville aimed at organizing all renters
for the purpose of improving housing
conditions and tenants' rights.

Questions on the survey cover a wide range
of areas which include rent, size, condition,
maintenance, leases, and tenant-landlord
relations. Heavy emphasis in the questionnaire
has been placed on the latter area for University
students have long been dissatisfied with the
local landlords and realtors.

Completed questionnaires should be returned
to the tables set up around the Grounds.