The House Office of Congressional Ethics, however, had decided that the residents' rental rates were appropriate for the boarding-house arrangement, and did not recommend that any action be taken.
These policies would go a long way toward breaking up the chummy, frat-house arrangement that has taken root in Albany, where governors and their minions are accustomed to having a kind of personal police force at their disposal.
Theirs is a dismal, surreal housing arrangement that seems as much out of Kafka as Dickens.
The Peterses recognize that their housing arrangement is uncommon, and they said they considered it not a perk but a privilege.
Even with this rather unusual housing arrangement, Ms. Tohn says she has found that being candid often worked to her advantage.
While not the most common housing arrangement, buying with friends or relatives seems to be growing more popular because it offers both financial and social benefits.
Many students are looking for a housing arrangement in a bustling environment that will help them make friends and build their social network both inside and outside the walls of the university.
Fellows in the News21 program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism are posting video reports on four of these: a shared housing arrangement in White Plains, a senior cohousing development in Virginia, an urban village in Chicago and an R.V. community in East Texas.
Council and housing associations that offer more of these "sociable" types of housing arrangement would be actively supporting older people to remain in the community rather than institutionalising age segregation.
Former board officials said the housing arrangement was intended to be similar to those that many universities used for their presidents or chancellors, including several schools in the City University of New York system.
