City orders Winnipeg property manager to clean up encampment debris
A Winnipeg property manager is voicing frustrations after the city ordered him to clean up debris from a homeless encampment on his property. He says there have been multiple fires on the site and that people have cut through the fencing they added. Sharp says he received a compliance order on July 17 ordering him to clean up the area himself.“Literally I said, this is bulls–t.
- ▪A Winnipeg property manager is voicing frustrations after the city ordered him to clean up debris from a homeless encampment on his property.
- ▪He says there have been multiple fires on the site and that people have cut through the fencing they added.
- ▪Sharp says he received a compliance order on July 17 ordering him to clean up the area himself.“Literally I said, this is bulls–t.
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A Winnipeg property manager is voicing frustrations after the city ordered him to clean up debris from a homeless encampment on his property. Marvin Sharp, the CEO of AML Properties, manages the Pen-Eve apartment complex on 35 Balmoral Street, which backs onto the river.He says there has been an encampment along the river on his property for several years.“You can see down here there’s clothing, there’s consumer good items, there’s needles,” Sharp says, standing behind the apartment building.He says the encampment residents have taken shelter in an area under the apartment complex’s surface parking, which is slated to be torn down due to the land along the river shifting. He says there have been multiple fires on the site and that people have cut through the fencing they added.
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