That was weird

[marcmagus]

[Post about my thorough physical search by the TSA still to come when I get around to editing the quick thing I wrote in the airport when I didn't have good internet access to post...]

Wednesday, shortly before leaving to fly to NY to visit my family for the long weekend, I went out to check the mail and discovered a memo from my local housing

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[lordrefa]

My immediate guess would be that they are "inspecting all units" only because they are not allowed to single people out. You weren't a problem, so that was your inspection. Others will be gone over more thoroughly.

[velvetmouse]

My only thought is they've had a bunch of people complaining about illegal sublets so they're trying to make sure the people actually living in a unit are the people on record as either owning or renting it... and they're trying to do it sneaky-like so that people don't have warning and just give the name they have on record.

Maybe?

*shrug* housing associations are weird creatures.

[marcmagus]

Possible. Most of the community are theoretically owners rather than renters, although I don't know if that contradicts or supports your theory.

In any case, that would make the safety concerns a blatant lie, which is rather offensive (and would invalidate the results of a search carried out by the government as a violation of rights, although a lot of how housing associations are weird is that they're kind of like local governments in a lot of ways except that you don't have constitutional protections against them because you could "always live somewhere else").

[velvetmouse]

well, if they are looking illegal sublets, they could always say something like "6 people living in housing designed for 2 is a safety concern"

but it would be a stretch. and the worst of all this is that you may never know what it was all about....

[marcmagus]

That's a good point. Overcrowding is probably a "safety concern".

and the worst of all this is that you may never know what it was all about....

I'd think it's that someone might be getting evicted from their home without recourse because their landlord lied to them about being permitted to rent to them.

But certainly that's likely the worst for me.