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On 11/30/2024 8:54 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2024-11-30, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>    I grew up in a house without any running water, or a
>> bathroom.
> 
> Nowadays, that's illegal everywhere in Michigan.  Even the Amish
> have to install a bathroom, but they're not required to use it.

Who enforces that state-wide?  Especially rural and in Amish 
communities?  Where I live, people outside of city limits don't have any 
sort of zoning or code enforcement to harass them or condemn homes 
without plumbing.  I'd bet that there are still poor rural Ohioans who 
live without plumbing.  Let us not forget the "off the grid" type folks. 
  New construction with county permits would be a different story.

I found a 1970's news article of the East Liverpool health department 
condemning a home not far from mine, due to the long-term elderly 
inhabitants living in their home without being hooked to the water main, 
as they always had done, since before running water was available.  The 
article went on to say that kind neighbors pitched in and bought them a 
septic system, since the city sewer didn't reach that far.  I explored 
the now decades-abandoned house before it was razed, and found that they 
still had no kitchen plumbing or sink, just the small add-on bathroom.