Crowded House: A push for zoning and codes overhaul to ease overcrowding, reduce firetraps

“If you want to change those problems, you have to offer other kinds of solutions,” said Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council, a housing research organization. “You can’t just outlaw the world of the underground housing market. It exists because people can’t find what they need in the normal housing market.”