There go occupancy limits

Another elitist housing rule in the trash.

Jack Craver

Jack Craver

— 4 min read
There go occupancy limits
City employees rally in front of City Hall against Interim City Manager Jesus Garza's new policy limiting remote work to two days a week. AFSCME business manager Carol Guthrie tells me they want a policy based on "data" and that allows managers discretion based on their needs. 

How things have changed

When I was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I shared an early-20th century brick house with four friends I'd met in the dorms the year before. It was hardly an unusual situation –– many of my peers lived in houses with more people.

It's probably not that unusual in Austin either, but it is illegal. Our current occupancy limits caps the number of "unrelated" people to four in a single-family home, three in a duplex unit or six in an apartment.

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