On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:52:32 -0800, Robert LaCasse
<housetenant@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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|>On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:45:33 -0800, Greg Carr <gregpcarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
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|>|>Safety hazards force out last 5 from derelict building
|>|>Downtown Eastside rooming house officially condemned
|>|>
|>|>(Comments In Brackets My Own.)
|>|>
|>|>Jeff Lee and Catherine Rolfsen
|>|>Vancouver Sun
|>|>
|>|>Monday, January 21, 2008
|>|>
|>|>CREDIT: Ward Perrin, Vancouver Sun
|>|>Bruce Dumont and Valerie Nicholson will be evicted from condemned
|>|>Marie Gomez Place today.
|>|>
|>|>VANCOUVER - Housing officials and the City of Vancouver will evict
|>|>five holdouts from the derelict Marie Gomez Place today, after finding
|>|>homes for about 50 other residents of the Downtown Eastside rooming
|>|>facility.
|>
|> I think the building looks just fine as in a good shape compared to
|>the facade of the buidings surrounding it......some complained about the
|>narrow hallways, gimme a break, nobody lives in a the hallway of an
|>apartment building, that's not what counts.....
|>
|> The destruction of Woodward, and MGomez places are just a make work
|>project of throwing out the old material and replacing it with old
recycled
|>products, which is what the MGomez place was made up of in the 1980's
and
|>the last 10 years when Alex owned it....
|> He (Alex) got ripped off for a $160,000.00 City Housing lawsuit he
|>was trying to get after his heart attack.......
|> Some of the houses around there are close to 100 years old, and only
|>the new stuff is coming down....where's the logic in that...????????
|>
|> The ****head Clients at MGomez Building was a pretty much bull****,
|>since the tenants never actually owned anything, and had no
|>responsibilities, therefore nothing better to do but push/pull
|>drugs/***/larceny but supply and demand......
|>
|> Well the kids are out to screw up the world, like they did at the
|>Gomez Place, but the sane elderly are suffering in the process, and
loosing
|>a good free rental spot, that was desecrated by the punk dealers.....
|>
|> They also provided as an easy picking spot for the VPD who saw them
|>coming and going in/out continuously.most of these kids got what they
|>deserved, but tearing down the building is another costly matter....they
|>wanna put a 500 unit building in a place they couldn't manage to fill
the
|>original 76 units...
|>
|> Well that makes a lot of sense, they had some 27 vacancies in the
|>MGomez place, and now they want to put a 50 unit causing even more even
more
|>vacancies......
They MG Place ppl have the Narcotics, Weapons, Explosives squad
parked there for the last month......what do they expect to
find...something
left behind by starving dope addicts...weird...
They also had Inverter stepup generated 2 bright flood lights
pointing at a blank wall al night......weirder....
The trees are fenced in too, maybe in case they might try to escape
custody of the Dope/Sikh police there around the clock....
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