Susan Lower News Today

Property owners will soon receive notices.

Property assessments have fallen slightly in an upscale Roanoke neighborhood because men are staying in a house there while they receive treatment elsewhere to try to stop getting high. They live in a large home in Oak Hill established as a sober-living residence last year by a national provider of opiate treatment services. Some of those who were already living in the neighborhood southwest of downtown came to see it as a bad fit soon after it opened. They reported that the home has generated ...