Tenants in an apartment building, many of whom are elderly, insist their needs must be considered in any safety initiative in Chinatown.
Guy Favreau residents say as a result there are problems with noise, filth and drug use around the building. Some allege the homeless even break into the apartment grounds, past locked gates.
“In the nighttime there’s sex for money going on, on the premises,” resident Bill Wong pointed out. “It’s going on like this, non-stop.”N.W.T. wildfires destroy town of Enterprise, threaten Yellowknife: ‘Everything I loved in life is gone’He and the others also point to drugs and crime in other parts of Chinatown, and want police to act more quickly to crack down.
They want a ban on any other homeless shelters in Chinatown and for the city to create a strategy to deal with the problems. “Basically, to set up, among other things, a working committee, a task force, between the police, the city, residents and merchants in order to develop what we call a community, safety and crime prevention plan,” explained Fo Niemi, head of the civil rights group, the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations.
The city has had meetings with the community and says it plans to continue working with the neighbourhood.
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