Remember our little homeless problem?
 

A couple of weeks ago I posted about the homeless people living in our underground carpark, and the lack of desire from the owners to do anything about it.

Seems that a secret plan was in place for the Calgary Drop-in center to buy the entire apartment building - kick us rent paying residents out, and fill it up with homeless people including druggies, prostitutes and more. All this across the road from St. Angela's school.

The cat is out of the bag now, thanks to a Calgary Sun journalist, and seems they will be attempting damage control at a local community meeting this week. Should be interesting.

Just thought I'd post a follow-up, not to start another debate on the homeless problem.

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That does rather explain why the management didnt care about the problem!

Did you hand in your notice in the end? Have you found somewhere new?
Whats the deal on getting everyone to leave? I guess if they fill one floor on this basis then everyone else might just volunteer to leave!

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Now I understand. The manager knew what was happening but was ordered not to let the cat out of the bag because the owners wanted to collect as much rent as they could before they sold the apartment building. I just hope that you used the last few weeks checking out new places like I suggested.

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Well we're kind of in limbo - we're waiting to see if the inlaws sell their house soon, they have offered to help us buy our own house with some of the proceeds. It goes on sale this week and the realtor expects it sold within 2-3 weeks.

We don't really want to commit to another long lease right now for that reason, but if things get too bad, we will jump into their basement until they sell up.

I'm holding off for as long as possible, since I don't want us to have to change our addresses for everything (cards, bills, loans, magazines, etc) twice in such a short period of time.

I'm keeping a close eye on the situation.

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What happens if you stop paying your rent altogether, they'll kick you out and back in again for free?

wonder if there is a class action suit possible by the tenants that the Owners delibrate used the intimadation factor to make it easy to get rid of sitting tenants?

Stress, verbal abuse, psycological problems with children, endangerment with the needles etc.

Appears the homeless would have be encouraged to use the place once the agreement had gone through. bye sitting tenants hello big profit.

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I'm waiting for the community meeting - then we can make sure we have our facts straight, and get an idea of how everybody else in the building feels.

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Okay folks we had our community meeting last night - some of you Calgarians may have seen it on A-Channel news.

I now see Calgarians - especially us Bridgelanders in a whole new light. I will eat humble pie about Canadians being passive, it was simply not the case yesterday. I swear it was one step away from being pitch forks and flaming torches, there were easily over 100 furious residents at the meeting.

Basically, the Calgary drop-in centre has purchased our apartment building behind everybody's backs for $3.5 million dollars, and will be housing mentally ill people who are currently on the streets - the school across the road has yet to be informed. The speaker tried to play it down, but was caught out on the many questions brought up amoungst the angry crowd.

Calgary's centralised homeless population is getting out of control - last night was an amazing insight, and I had no idea just how bad things had got around here. Prostitutes, druggies, drunks, gangs, stabbings, mob attacks - we got the lot in Bridgeland.

Our notice goes in today.

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Oh my,

What has become of this country. So much for the safety appeal. Now I am really reconsidering :D :lecture: :beer: :rolleyes: :p :scared:

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Oh yeah I remember seeing this on the news - sick. I hope you got the hell out of Bridgeland, I've lived in Calgary all my life & you couldn't pay me to live in Bridgeland, or in any other "inner city" community, I've lived on the "fringe", never saw the druggies or prostitues, but knew if I lived any closer I would. I am so thankful I live where i do, out west near Mount Royal College, where the biggest problems to face are traffic jams on Saturday on the way to Chinook or Westhills shopping centres, not whether there's an infected needle on my doorstep!!:scared:

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I know what you mean - the difference between the deep SW where I live and downtown where I work is hard to believe.

We're now looking at moving south of 22X - 40 minutes to downtown - by UK standards that's a short commute.

It's the deep, deep SE as opposed to the deep SW.