Slumtown

Great report about Edmonton’s most notorious slum landlord. But, I feel that there is so, so much more to this story. He was the owner of Dwayne’s Home, which was funded in part by the city to “solve” homelessness, in turn he sold drugs after NA meetings, charged individuals on AISH their entire cheque with the promise of providing 3 squares, shelter, clothing and education, but instead were lucky if they received one cold meal a day and a room shared with 3 others. Women weren’t allowed, but as someone who walked by daily, he was turning women out of Dwayne’s Home… He also owned slum buildings that were next to the new arena (or so I’ve heard), some super sketchy deal went went down between Shah, Katz and the city of Edmonton or at least it’s rumoured… I’d like to hear more about this story!

Very interesting, especially when you live in North Edmonton! But… please, change the music and shorten it up a bit!! I absolutely can’t not fast forward through it!!😝

Listening to this in May 2022 when we are seeing the issues escalated and a new city council trying to deal with the issues, it is madder to see the previous elected officials and city managers etc did nothing at all to deal with the issues. This is an issue that seems to be spreading to other areas in the city and unfortunately it is a multi tiered problem with many underlying issues that is going to take years and many levels of government and community to resolve.

Name all the individuals behind the numbered companies associated with Shah