Residents in the Long’s Hill-Livingstone Street-Tessier Place neighbourhood need the city, the police and the province to step up for their sake and for ...
Nevertheless, she knows the extent of the problems.
Even basic needs get little attention, she said. An example is the several months that a set of stairs was left unrepaired with a broken rail — although it was cordoned off, people would scale it. A contract was just recently awarded on the stairs which link Livingstone Street with Carter’s Hill Place.
“They're not trained properly to deal with the complicated social issues that are playing out in a lot of these situations nor is it kind of their job,” LeGrow said. Steve Gardiner owns properties in the is resident of the Tessier Park-Long's Hill-Springdale Street area. Sitting in Tessier Park, he talked about the years of efforts put in by concerned neighbours to make the area safer. - Barb Sweet“This has changed and evolved beyond what we can effectively deal with with the resources that we have or the nature of the policing that we have,” Gardiner said.
One time, the woman was coming home from a trip late at night and a man stepped out of the shadows and tried to take her bag. She managed to get inside and lock the door. The next day, she found out he had trashed a neighbour’s house. Neighbours keep an eye out for one another. The couple mentioned going out of town in summer and how much of a break that was.The woman said the empathy in the neighbourhood and the passion of many residents, who are involved in community organizations, make it the perfect area to try radical solutions.One thing area resident Mark Wilson has suggested is making traffic one-way in certain sections to discourage the survival sex worker customers from circling.
"All people deserve an affordable and stable place to live, and all people deserve to live in a neighbourhood where they and their families feel safe. Livingstone Street and the surrounding area should be a welcoming community, not one that drives people away."
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