This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Thursday, September 26,

24. I'm Caleb Brown.

Old laws often make for bad current policy. In the case of housing a very old and all too common

law aimed at cracking down on houses of ill repute are now used to keep housing from turning

into college student housing or old school

rooming houses and it illustrates the need to dig through some old statutes to clear

out the bad laws. I spoke with Cateres Deodor McClosky and economist Art Carden last month.

So a long time ago in places far and near, people liked sex and in some cases they were

willing to pay for sex and it was thought that he had a lot of young women

living together that people come to where those young women were living and would pay them for sex.

So it was thought if you have these these concentrations of young single women that's going to only lead to bad things and so many municipalities passed laws saying that if you had more

than a given number of unmarried women living together it was legally a brothel it was a house of ill

repute and this has at at least in some of the experience I've had,

looking at college towns or seeing how college towns are regulated,

it's hard to have a lot of people a lot of unrelated people living together

because legally under laws that were passed to prevent brothels from forming

again it's illegal to have five, six, seven, eight young women who are not related.

In addition, I know that in a lot of cities, so we ran into this, this was a problem when I was

in graduate school in St. Louis.

I had a bunch of roommates and we had trouble finding a place to live because

none of us were related to each other and there were laws against more than, I forget, however many people

who are unrelated living together five like more than four more than five the outcome is that the rooming house has been killed yeah my grandmother in Wausau, Wisconsin ran a rooming house and not a very large one, a couple of rooms.

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