Summary
She yelled at Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard for referring to Gilbert Park in 2007 as a "Gary ghetto" with "decrepit housing which is poorly looked after" and a "crime incubator." His comments made [Golondrina] see red.
"Respect where you live," Golondrina tells her kids and others. "People think you're horrible if you're trashing your own home.""Once people are cut from the community at large, you can't replace that with social programs and recreation facilities," said University of Manitoba social work professor Sid Frankel. "That won't normalize the situation, fundamentally," he said. Huge low-income housing projects were cheaper to build but have ended up costing more in the social problems they create, he said.See the full content of this document
Extract
It's Hard, but It's Home
Good and evil do endless battle in Gilbert Park
There's no place like home.For the 1,000 residents of Manitoba's largest subsidized housing project, Gilbert Park, that's both good and bad.It made national headlines twice in the last four weeks after two shocking, alco...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
