A
Safe Place to Live
Smith*, 2006
I live in the Saskatoon Housing Coalition which has three apartments
and a group home for people who have mental illness. I am fortunate
living at the Housing Coalition. I’ve been there sixteen years.
They need lots of buildings because there is a long waiting list
for people with psychiatric problems who want to live there.
We are dead centre in the inner city where there’s crime, because
that’s all we could afford. Guys have been beaten up because it’s
not a safe area. Inside the buildings we’re very safe. They shouldn’t
put them all in the high-crime area.
*Some of the women have chosen pseudonyms to protect
their anonymity.
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