Home in Daytona Houses 9 Registrants

Yesterday’s Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on a home in Daytona which as many as nine registrants call home. As if it were any surprise, registrants are clustered together into limited pockets of availability as a result of residency restrictions and forced to scramble for a spot in one of the very few available properties that will (a) take them, (b) be affordable and (c) fall outside of the buffer zone. Generally opportunists who own an acceptable property will pack in as many registrants as possible, knowing they can exploit the unfortunate situation. Neighbors then complain. Not because anything happens, but because they don’t want a sex offender housing facility next door. What nobody seems to realize is that residency restrictions are what created this problem and the only way to alleviate it is to repeal them.