For years, Quinnipiac University students living and partying in residential neighborhoods off campus in Hamden have generated complaints to the town government and people blamed absentee landlords they said took rent without responsibility.
So what Hamden did was require people who rent out houses - landlords - to actually live with their tenants when they have four unrelated tenants or more.
Now town officials are considering repealing the rule.
In November, according to the acting town planner, Hamden's planning and zoning commission will hold a hearing on removing the rule requiring landlords to live with student tenants - but still preserving other regulations on student housing.
Bob DeCosmo, who led landlords in the Connecticut Property Owners Alliance, said the rule was flawed because it applied to "just the landlords that rent to college students."
He took 40 complaints from landlords to the commission on human rights and opportunities, complaints that are still pending, arguing Hamden is discriminating illegally.
"Create a class of landlords in the class of landlords - you can't start to discriminate and segregate groups of property owners. You have to have a policy that covers all landlords," he said.
