Lethbridge Housing application deserves public support
By Lethbridge Herald on April 14, 2023.
Editor:
We voice our support for Lethbridge Housing in their application to house individuals in the Castle Apartments, that have gone through treatment programs and desire to live in a supportive program to independent living.
Lethbridge Housing residents are not the ones who are causing problems in our neighbourhood. We do not see this program affecting our area at all. Lethbridge Housing is a well managed and well respected organization in our community.
We believe it is our Christian responsibility to look after those less fortunate than us and to show the love of Christ to a world that is broken by sin. It becomes all about me I and ourselves. It should be, what can we do for others. Don’t tie the homeless situation now to Castle Apartments. Property values are not and will not go down. It’s hyperbole. We also can have credentials behind our names which we will not use to bolster our position. Please don’t grant the appeal against the permit. We need programs like this in the city.
Andrew Kippers
Lethbridge
7-6
I support putting the truly homeless that for reasons not of their own, they find themselves in need at this time.
I do not support putting the addicts in their, who continue to commit crimes, disrespect everyone around, them steal from them, destroy the property and the rooms they are given and allow all their drug friends to come and party their in our neighborhood.
Ask some of the residents in Halmrest Manor or Haig Tower how they appreciated having the addicts there in their buildings and now fear going out or are tired of another fatal overdose in their building and access to parts restricted due to police investigating!
Why is it that the reserves can kick their troublemakers off the reserves onto our streets and we cannot send them back to their reserves? They still are getting the monies from the federal governments to support them when they are not there, but on our streets, destroying our city!
I will be glad when we have leadership with the balls to deal with these criminals!
Buzz off with your “truly homeless” garbage. People are people, and I don’t recall anything in the Bible about only loving your neighbor if they meet some arbitrary standards you made up.
So what is your solution beside dragging in the red herring religion card. RU didn’t mention it. Speaking of the bible, how many brothers have you taken in.
I’ve done one better – lobbied consistently for my tax money to go towards supporting people who are able to take people in. Addiction are homelessness are complex issues – an average joe like myself can do far more good supporting the people who know what they’re doing than trying to barge in and fix it ourselves. Housing people myself would be about as effective as me trying to perform heart surgery in my garage because I’m unhappy about healthcare – sometimes you just need a professional.
As for solutions – there’s no one size fits all, but as a city we’ve tried just shy of nothing. NIMBYs have shut down any attempts to expand the shelter or the soup kitchen, so we’re drastically under resourced. Any drug policy besides the failed war on drugs approach is shouted down. Any affordable housing initiative is pushed aside with fingers pointed to other levels of government. There’s no magic solution, but rolling up our sleeves and giving it a try is better the blame game and finger pointing we’re trying now.
Anyone notice the new high fences going up around the Halmrest Manor? Who paid for that and why?