Alice was concerned about a ruling Government not a rabbit hole. A city which allows bad stuff; truckers parking overnight, bands to operate in garages, allows barking dogs creates dissention and turnover. City councils can only do so much, but the neighborhood is still marked, or not.
Alice disguised the rabbit holes because the Kings and Queens were so powerful. Cause and Effect; Maby, Maby not.

if anyone of you can add to the effort to stop these guys being posted up into our ‘hood please do offer

Two issues conflated. An individual on the registry vs a half way house with many individuals on the registry. You don’t adjust for it either way. If there is market response then you’ll see something. When disruptive person(s) moves in, the money moves out. That’s a constant in real property markets. There is no need to even define disruptive persons. It is an individuals subjective perception. Could be different this or that, spoiled rotten silver spooner, felons to junk yard dawgs. It does not matter, if there are negative influences someone will cut and run, the market evidence will be there. Or it won’t. Disclose. Disclaim. That’s the end of it. If there is a community response, there will be a prohibition or statue dealing with whatever issue is on the table. Some communities make it more difficult to carry the past into the future and vice versa. The market evidence is presumably already constant and present in real time figures.

https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/dps/sor/faq.jsf

Different than prison proximity I think. Prisoners aren’t allowed to roam the community. Drug rehab can be a factor too, though again recovering addicts or alcoholics don’t trend toward molestation of kids. The one instance where I was able to measure impact was an above-average economic area.

MOST neighborhoods have registered offenders. Or are in proximity. I think having a few isolated instances is less risky than a house with 6 to 10 may be. It also may be limited to subjective market perception.

The article makes some valid points. We need to be aware of the potential impact. Not that it will apply in all instances.

Maybe the halfway house is something to consider, possibly like being close to a prison? Aren’t there halfway houses for drug offenders also? You mention LA, I have to say I am completely unfamiliar. Is it possible that these halfway houses where ever they may be are located in areas that already have values affected and that is why they chose to locate there? Chicken/Egg?

In California Agents are required to report grizzly deaths within 3? years of occurrence. Appraisers know this and so does everybody else. This research is much more tedious and revealing.
I lived in a low density area and we were able to burn the tumble weeds during the season with an annual fire permit. I alerted the FD and got my shovel and hose and began burning. Shortly thereafter the BIG RED TRUCK arrived with a full contingent of firemen. They said, when they saw the smoke they couldn’t tell which house was burning, they worried because one house on the block had an identified FIREBUG!
Whoda thunk, these records are based on POLICE & Fire records and inconvenient.

I have had only TWO properties in which proximity to a registered sex offender halfway house definitively affected value (two neighboring properties at two different times-just an odd coincidence where the agent on the first one happened to own the second one).

Interestingly, there were also more than 11 other individual registered offenders within a one-mile radius (Los Angeles) where it doesn’t appear that values were affected.

This was one of the diciest appraisals I had done in a very long time (a few years ago). Quite lot of back and forth between the lender and I. THEY didn’t want it even mentioned.