Sept 26th City Hall E-News
Safe, quality, affordable, rental homes for all
Advocates call on the Edmonton City Council: take action on short term rentals, protect renters.
Media Availability: Friday, September 22nd 11:00AM - City Hall Councillors Offices (2nd Floor)
Media:
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2023/09/22/edmonton-short-term-rentals/ (City News Edmonton)
"As the housing crisis worsens, across Canada, advocates warn that renters are being left out of the conversation, and now more than ever require enhanced protections. Our first priority as Municipalities must be to help keep rental housing affordable". - Michael Janz
Advocates and community members will be available to call for action to protect renters and improve housing availability in Edmonton and across Alberta.
Pleasantview Dog Park Grand Opening
Best of Our Neighbourhoods
What would you tell a brand new neighbour about the best of your community?
Enter here:
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5vkoq2I_9Mo
The Golden Age of Youtube (Cities Edition)
Around the world, we love our city and naturally, we want to make films about them! If you are interested in cities or community development, we are certainly in the golden age of Youtube!
During the pandemic I recall a number of commentators lamented the end of cities. They were wrong.
More and more folks are choosing to return and reinvest in cities (~20,000 people per year each year for the last ten years in Edmonton!), and making movies about them!
Curbing Sprawl? Let's learn about Substantial Completion
More Money, More Police? Not Necessarily...
We're paying millions more each year for police, but it isn't resulting in as many new officers as you might think.
Ending Violent Crime (Video Recap)
Here is the recap of our June 1st 2023 Event with Dr. Irvin Waller.
My simple message: We cannot afford not to make violence prevention a priority. We are already paying far more for the consequences.
As I said in my introduction, as taxpayers want to make every single dollar whether it is spent on health care, education, prisons, or policing is securing the best return on investment in terms of keeping people safe and ending violence. Much of this is a provincial responsibility, and we need them to step up far more. Collectively, if we do our jobs as civil society in preventing violent crime, we will make the job of police officers a lot safer, easier and reduce their workload.
According to the Edmonton Police Commission one new police officer to the system is ~$190,000. 100 new police officers as promised by Premier Smith is about $20 Million per year. The prison system is another enormous cost. Those are the public costs of reaction (policing and prisons) not prevention. The private costs bourne by individuals through trauma, let alone auto insurance, home insurance, business costs, Fire insurance, missed work time or lifetime due to the costs of violence are enormously staggering.
Please watch and share with interested neighbours.
