Posted on 01/05/2018 11:52:41 AM PST by Morgana
A suburban Chicago man has been told to stop the “slumber parties” he hosts in a basement for freezing homeless people — or the home will be condemned.
“I would stay up all night with them and give them coffee and stuff and feed them,” Greg Schiller, of Elgin, told NBC Chicago of the events in his girlfriend’s basement.
Schiller said his reading of city code allows for “slumber parties,” but city officials claim that code applies to children’s parties, not adults.
According to the city, the “parties” Schiller hosts a few times a week actually make the home a “rooming house,” which is prohibited by city code, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Government is so stupid and so death-dealing. “Yeah, the ceilings are too low - better to leave them outside to freeze to death.”
Reminds me of Jesus healing a man on the Sabbath and the Jewish “government” telling him it was illegal for him to heal on the Sabbath.
Seems to me it’s his house and as long as they are not wanted by the law he may have in it who he wished.
Adopt them. Then they're part of your family and they can stay in your house whenever you want them there.
Agreed. Unjust laws are made to be broken and SHOULD be broken. Breaking unjust laws benefits society.
If the law does not specify the age of slumber party participants, nor the number of times for the party, the city cannot cite the code.
/nanny state
How can they say that a homeowner or renter can’t have houseguests sleep over for an evening?
State or city law or ordinance, who knows? Some local laws limit the number of people who can live in your house. I’m not sure I see the legitimacy in such a law.
So if you want to just go do something kind for people who desperately need it, you lose your home.
I’ve just had a wonderful kindness done for me for which I am eternally thankful, because my situation is in dangerous decline, so I appreciate people who do such things for others. When I was flush, I used to do the same for others.
It galls me beyond words that these people’s home is being threatened over some stupid code, when people’s lives are at stake. Yeah, let them die, frozen to the pavement. Your precious code will be preserved.
In a sane world, this would be ‘wink and a nod’ stuff. If people are going to end up as lifeless corpses frozen to the pavement, then screw the dang code.
Those ordinances probably came at a time when certain culture enriching activities were viewed as things that would lower property values and be annoying to live near; ie grandma& grandpa , aunts & uncles, mom &dad, kids and cousins all living like sardines in one house.
Just a guess, but cities used to pass ordinances to protect property values.
One of the more amazing parts of this article is that Chicago actually has regulations pertaining to children’s slumber parties.
The bureaucratic rationale is that rooming houses are illegal. Maybe if rooming houses weren’t illegal these people wouldn’t be homeless.
If they were Mexican it wouldn’t be a problem.
I see those as unjust laws. An unjust law is a law that interferes with private consenting adults who are not interfering with anyone else’s rights or freedoms. These laws are also unjust because they interfere with the private use of one’s own property that does not interfere with another’s rights or freedom.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Is there anything Chicogo does not have a law governing?
This is Tyranny defined.
When I lived in Manassas, Virginia, we had a problem with groups of illegals inhabiting 3RR townhouses: we were talking 20-25 (with kids) in a 1800 square foot TH. . .
After one nearly burned down a TH in my development, the local County government passed a law limiting a house to no more than 5 unrelated inhabitants. . .
The local people certainly have a right to pass such a law. I’m not sure it’s just, but it is what it is I guess.
It is not the guys house
Fromn the article
” in his girlfriend’s basement. “
So, classic home-buy mooch spreading the wealth.....
I hate to say it, but the city is correct.
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